W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 8 (θ）, line 530

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[530] Join τῆς … παρειαί. We may render ἐλεεινοτάτῳ ‘most pitiful.’ “ἐλεεινόν” as applied to “δάκρυον” is not otiose: it characterises the tears as springing from feeling: whereas such tears as those shed by Thersites in physical pain would not be “ἐλεεινά”.

531-532. εἶβεν … λείβων. The latter is the true form of the word according to its etymology; the dropping of the initial “λ” being metri gratia. Compare “λαιψηρὸς . . αἰψηρός”. See Lobeck path. el. 1. 108; Curt. G. E. 439.

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

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