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[510] τῇ περ. Cp. Il.8. 415“ὧδε γὰρ ἠπείλησε Κρόνου πάις ᾗ τελέει περ”, Il.9. 310“ᾗ περ δὴ φρονέω καὶ ὡς τετελεσμένον ἔσται”. These passages show that τῇ περ may be taken quite adverbially, without any grammatical reference to “βουλή”. Transl. ‘The very way in which things were fated in the end to be accomplished.’

ἔμελλεν is used almost as an impersonal: and probably ἀπολέσθαι in the same way; sc. ‘that ruin should come;’ otherwise we may supply “αὐτούς” for a subject.

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

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