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[424] πατρός must surely mean ‘my father,’ as M. Pierron and Dr. Hayman explain it, not ‘her father,’ as it is generally taken. ἐπέφραδεν, said of a house, means ‘pointed out,’ ‘showed the way to,’ cp. Od.7. 49. Od., 10. 111.Here the woman naturally pointed out the ‘lofty roof’ of the house that she belonged to, and went on to relate that she had been brought from her home in Sidon “τοῦδ᾽ ἀνδρὸς πρὸς δώματα”, where “τοῦδε”=‘this that I am showing you.’ The use of “πατρός”=“πατρὸς ἐμοῦ” is easier on account of “πατρὸς ἐμοῖο” in l. 417. The repetition of “ὑψερεφὲς δῶ” in l. 432 with a different reference is probably intentional. The Phoenician seems to say,—‘You have shown us the “great house” where you are kept in slavery: will you return to the “great house” of your father and mother?’

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

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