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[489] ἐμβαλέειν κώπῃς. This is taken as the equivalent of the Lat. ‘incumbere remis.’ According to this rendering we have to supply some word like “χεῖρας” or “ἶνα”, or else to treat ἐμβ. as a sort of reflexive verb, of which latter use we find no example in Homer. Perhaps we ought to interpret the phrase as meaning, ‘to dash into [the sea] with our oars,’ comparing the dative with “νηὶ κατηγαγόμεσθα” Od.10. 140, or “χερσὶν ἀνασχομένω” Il.23. 686.

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

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