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[18] αὔτως, vaguely, aimlessly, keeps up the personification, and is expanded in the words which follow. For οὐδ᾽ ἑτέρωσε, (neither forward) nor aside, cf. 13.543; Bentley wrote “πρὸ κυλίνδεται” to make this clear. Eust. read “οὐδετέρωσε”, and so Nauck has; but H. knows neither “οὐδέτερος” nor any derivative of it. For τε Scheindler conj. “τῆι”, neither this way nor that (any other). κεκριμένον, decided, as opposed to the shifting ‘puffs’ which precede the storm. Cf. Hesiod Opp. 670 “τῆμος δ᾽” (in summer time) “εὐκρινέες τ᾽ αὖραι καί πόντος ἀπήμων”, the winds are steady.

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

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