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[292] τραπείομεν. The 2nd aor. subjunct. pass. of “τέρπω”. The change from “ταρπ-” to “τραπ-” being the same as from “καρδία” to “κραδία”. For the termination see note on “ἐπιβείομεν” Od.6. 262.This was the interpretation of Schol. H., Apoll. Lex.and Hesych, according to which λέκτρονδε is to be joined with εὐνηθέντε, uniformly with Il.3. 441“ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ φιλότητι τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντε”. The phrase “λέκτρονδε εὐνηθέντε” is then equivalent in construction to “θῶκόνδε καθίζανον” Od.5. 3.But some commentators, referring “τραπείομεν” to “τρέπω”, joined it directly to “λέκτρονδε”. Bekker, with Ameis, puts a colon after “λέκτρονδε”, taking it in close connection with “δεῦρο”. Ameis compares Musaeus 248 “δεῦρό μοι εἰς φιλότητα”.

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

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