[202] τίπτ̓ αὖτε: “What now! why art thou come?” “αὖτε” is here not equiv. to “αὖτις”, and does not imply that she had been there before, but is uttered in a tone of vexation; cf. “ὤ μοι ἐγώ, τέων αὖτε βροτῶν ἐς γαῖαν ἱκάνω”; Od. 6.119 O woe is me, to the land of what mortals do I come now?
τίπτε εἰλήλουθας [“ἐλήλυθας”]: for this greeting, cf. “τέκνον, τίπτε λιπὼν πόλεμον θρασὺν εἰλήλουθας”; “Ζ 254, ε” 87. αἰγιόχοιο . . . τέκος: ten times repeated in Homer, cf. § 1 q.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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