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[369] πάντων Ἀργείων. As a matter of fact Odysseus did not tell of the fate of ‘all the Argives.’ Eustath. notices the difficulty, and proposes to treat it as a similar inaccuracy to “ἀέθλων πειρηθῶμεν πάντων” Od.8. 100, where see note. But by Ἀργείων Alcinous possibly intends to refer to the men whom Odysseus brought with him from Troy: cp. Od.1. 61; 2.173. ἀντίθεοι ἕταροι (cp. inf. 382) will then be limited to chieftains of the Greek host.

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

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