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[495] ἑοῖ, a form recurring only in Od. 4.38 “ἅμα σπέσθαι ἑοῖ αὐτῶι”. So we have “ἐέ,” 20.171, 24.134 (and perhaps 14.162, q. v. See also on 19.384). In all but one of these places it is joined closely with a form of “αὐτός”, and is used in the strictest reflexive sense. It is very likely, therefore, that it is the emphatic form of the pronoun, like “ἐμοί” beside “μοι”. This can hardly be considered quite certain, as the “ε” may merely have arisen phonetically before the ϝ; in the adjectival form there seems to be no difference between “ἑός” and “ὅς”. It would naturally be easy to write the longer form in most of the passages where the pronoun is orthotone, and it is quite possible that many instances have been superseded by the familiar short form. ἐπισπόμενον, the aor. means ‘when he saw his folk attach themselves to him.’ This is the regular sense of the verb.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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