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[422] ἐξ ἁλός. See critical note. If this reading be retained, we may render ἁλός ‘shore-water,’ as distinct from “πέλαγος”, ‘the open sea;’ the idea then being that such monsters haunted the rocks and caverns in the coast. See Giseke, Hom. Lex. ἅλς, ‘mare potissimum quod alluit littus, cui opponuntur et altum mare et terra.’ But the distinction is not carefully observed, as we find “πόντος ἁλός” Il.21. 59, “ἁλὸς ἐν πελάγεσσι” sup. 335.

κλυτὸς Ἀμφιτρίτη, see on Od. 3.88.

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

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