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[404] ἐπιωγαί. Not harbours, but roadsteads, where ships might lie under the lee of the land; “τόποι ἀλίμενες μὲν δυνάμενοι δὲ διὰ τὴν ἐκ τῶν ἀνέμων σκέπην δέξασθαι νέας” Schol. P. Q. T. The Schol. further explains “ἐπιωγαί” as places “ἔνθα κλῶνται τὰ κύματα ἢ ὁ ἄνεμος”, and this interpretation is right; but his proposed etymology “ἰωή”, the roar of the wind or water, and “ἄγνυμι”, cannot be accepted. It is better to refer the word to “ἄγνυμι” simply, as in the form “κυματωγή”, and to consider the initial “ἰ” the representative of the “ϝ” prefixed to “ἄγνυμι”, or a mere syllable of reduplication, as in “ἰ-αύ-ω”. In Od.14. 533 we have the uncompounded form “βορέω ὑπ᾽ ἰωγῇ”, according to the reading of Aristarchus, the Scholl. giving “ὑπιωγῇ”. But the addition of “ἐπί” to the simple word does not have any more effect upon the meaning than in “ἐπιμάρτυρες, ἐπαρωγοί”, etc.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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