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[493] ἐμβαίνοντες was conj. by Cobet (M. C. 351), and now has MS. support. It is clearly right; cf. 6.65λὰξ ἐν στήθεσι βάς,Od. 10.164τῶι δ᾽ ἐγὼ ἐμβαίνων” . ἀναβαίνειν always means to mount, climb. ἀήθεσσον, not only “ἅπαξ λεγόμενον”, but the only instance of a verb in “-εσjω” making “-εσσω” instead of “-ειω” (Curt. Vb. i. 368). Hesych. has “ἀήθεσκον”, which is perhaps the right word, though the formation is by no means above suspicion. αὐτῶν is quite ambiguous; it may mean either ‘they were not used to corpses,’ having only just reached the seat of war; or ‘they were not used to Odysseus and Diomedes’ as charioteers, cf. 5.231; or again it might mean ‘O. and D. had no experience of the horses.’ In any case the use of “αὐτῶν” in the weak sense, ‘them,’ is late; Hoogvliet ingeniously conj. “ἀήθεσσον γὰρ ἀϋτῆς”, but in this book there is no need of a change. Schol. A on 5.231 quotes the phrase with “αὐτόν” (sc. “Ὀδυσῆα”) for “αὐτῶν”: but this is probably no more than an error in the MS., and the acc. is indefensible.

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