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[283] “νεύσω κτλ.” These words imply that Ulysses is to give Telemachus a secret signal, in the presence of the Suitors, but unobserved by them. This does not agree with the actual course of events: see on 19. 4 ff. Indeed it is inconsistent with 287 “ὅτε κέν σε μεταλλῶσιν ποθέοντες”, which would be said of men struck by the absence of something to which they are used.

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