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[486] πλημυρίς (“πλήθω”), interpreted by Apollon. as “ὅρμημα τῆς θαλάσσης”, is not the flood-tide as distinguished from the ebb, but the swell from the fall of the stone, setting shoreward. It is a common expedient to bring a floating stick to the bank by throwing stones beyond the stick; and this was the effect of the great stone hurled by the Cyclops.

θέμωσε. Cp. Schol. V. “ὁ μὲν Ἀρίσταρχος, ἤγγισε δὲ τῇ χέρσῳ: Καλλίστρατος δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐποίησε, παρὰ τὸ θεῖναι, παραγώγως. Ἄλλως. ἠνάγκασεν, ἐβιάσατο”. Schol. B. derives the word from “θεσμός”, i. e. “ὁ νόμος καὶ ἡ ἀνάγκη”, but, ultimately, the word must be referred to root “θε” (“θεῖναι”). Cp. Eur. I. T.1396“εἰς δὲ γῆν πάλιν”

“κλύδων παλίρρους ἦγε ναῦν”.

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

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