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[204] τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων refers proleptically to an exception first mentioned in v. 207 “πλήν γ᾽ αὐτοῦ Λαοδάμαντος”. The words “τῶν ἄλλων” here are repeated there in the phrase “πάντων Φαιήκων”. Of the five ( Od.6. 62) sons of Alcinous, three (8. 118), probably the unmarried ones, were aspirants in these games; Odysseus declines ‘only Laodamas,’ emphasizing the ‘only’ by αὐτοῦ. Laodamas stood prominently before him as having (sup. 145) on the part of the Phaeacians delivered the challenge. If then guestship were a good reason for not entering the lists even with Laodamas, who was the challenger, it would be understood to bar the other two.

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

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