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[618] ἡγηλάζεις. Translate, ‘Wretched man, an evil sort of fate thou too dost endure.’ Ameis on Od. 18.382 quotes a number of instances of “τις” put before the substantive it qualifies, Od.5. 421; 6. 179, 206; 9. 11, 508; 11. 213, 618; 14. 391, 463; 15. 83, 362; 16. 256; 17. 449, 484; 18. 327; 19. 239; 20. 38, 140; 21. 397; Il.6. 506; 7.156; 11. 292, 722, 794, 797; 13. 389; 15. 362; 16. 39; 17. 32, 61, 133; 19. 56; 21. 101. A similar emphatic use of the indefinite is found in Theocr. 1. 32 “τὶ θεῶν δαίδαλμα”, ‘eximium et singulare in suo genere opus’ Fritzsche. ἡγηλάζειν seems to be used here as “ἄγειν” or “διάγειν” in later Greek. For the form we must suppose a word “ἡγηλός” related to “ἡγέομαι” as “μιμηλός” (Lucian, Jup. Trag.33) to “μιμέομαι”. Philo uses “μιμηλάζω”.

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

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