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[606] πάντοσ᾽ ἀτυζομένων, ‘flying scared every way.’ Cp. “ἀτυζόμενοι πεδίοιο” of runaway horses, Il.6. 38; of routed troups Il., 18. 7.The cry of the ghosts seems to be imitated in the reiteration of the “ω”.

νυκτὶ ἐοικώς, used of a stern lowering look; not unlike to our vernacular ‘looking as black as thunder.’ It is applied to Apollo in wrath, Il.1. 47; and to Hector, Il.12. 463, who is farther described as “νυκτὶ θοῇ ἀτάλαντος ὑπώπια”, reminding us of the phrase “ὑπόδρα ἰδών”.

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

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