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[67] θαλάσσιαμέμηλεν, ‘occupy their business in the great waters,’ i.e. in pursuit of fish, etc. For the expression cp. Od.12. 116πολεμήια ἔργα μέμηλεν”. Nitzsch compares “οἳ γλαυκὴν ἐργάζονταιHes. Theog.440.

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