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[132] ἔλσας, from “εἴλω”, as “κέλσας” from “κέλλω” Od.9. 149, “κέρσας” from “κείρω” Il.24. 450.“εἴλω”, in its derived sense of ‘squeezing,’ may well be used of a ‘crushing blow:’ others take it as equivalent to the Virgilian ‘detrusit ad undas’ Aen.7. 773.

οἴνοπι must be a general epithet referring to the dark colour of the tumbling sea. like “πορφυρέος”, and cannot have a special reference, as some suppose, to the red glare of the lightning, for the word is used without any of such surrounding circumstances, as in Il.2. 613, etc.

133, 134. See on 110, 111 sup.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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