[113] οἴκοι ἔχειν: i.e. to retain in my possession, cf. “οἴκοθεν Η” 364 from his own possessions, Od. 17.455.
καί: even, constr. with “Κλυταιμνήστρης”. γάρ ῥα: for, you see. Κλυταιμνήστρης: acc. to the later story, daughter of Tyndareüs and Leda, and thus half-sister of Helen. The ancient Greek on hearing these lines remembered well that Clytaemnestra proved unfaithful to Agamemnon, and slew him on his return to his home (Od. 11.411 ff.). She was herself slain by her son Orestes (Od. 3.306 ff.). The deaths of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra formed the theme of famous tragedies by the three greatest tragic poets of Greece, — the Agamemnon and Choëphoroe of Aeschylus, the Electra of Sophocles, and the Electra of Euripides. προβέβουλα: with pres. signification, cf. “δείδια” fear “δ 820, ἔολπα” hope Od. 2.275.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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