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[121] θεουδής, ‘god-fearing.’ Before Buttm. “θεουδής” was generally regarded as another form of “θεοειδής”. It should, however, be classed under those nouns with stems in “-εες” which are subject to Hyphaeresis, or dropping a vowel before another vowel, as “κλέα” for “κλέε-α”. So “θεουδής, θεουδέα” (for “θεοδϝής”). Monro, H. G. § 105. 4. Düntzer regards it as equivalent to “θεοαδής”, from root “ἁδ, σϝαδ”, in the sense of ‘god-pleasing;’ so also Schol. P. νόος θεουδής here is a sort of epexegesis of “φιλόξεινοι”, men who “ἔδεισαν μῆνιν Ζηνὸς ξεινίου”. Cp. Il.13. 625.

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

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