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[6] ἔχῃ κατὰ δῆμον ἅπαντα. It would seem as if the direct object to “ἔχῃ” was not expressed, but alluded to instead, under its constituent parts: ‘when joy possesses [a people] through all its individuals.’ Such an interpretation might be paralleled by the phrases “θαύμαζον κατὰ δῶμα” Od.4. 44, “τόφρα γὰρ ἂν κατὰ ἄστυ ποτιπτυσσοίμεθα μύθῳ” Od.2. 77.Others take ἔχῃ κατά as a mere inversion for “κατέχῃ”, as in “φυγὼν ὑπὸ νηλεὲς ἦμαρ”, but the simplest way is to render “ἔχῃ”, ‘holds’ or ‘reigns,’ intransitively, as in Eur. I. A.10“σιγαὶ δ᾽ ἀνέμων”

“τόνδε κατ᾽ Εὔριπον ἔχουσι”.

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

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