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[6] The two clauses of this line are parallel in sense: Ulysses perceived at once the fawning of the dogs and the sound of feet. The governing word “νόησε” is strictly appropriate to “σαίνοντας κύνας” only: hence the poet was naturally led into the slight anacoluthon involved in the use of the indic. “ἦλθε” instead of a participle. Cp. Il.3. 80（“ἐπετοξάζοντο”) “ἰοῖσίν τε τιτυσκόμενοι λάεσσί τ᾽ ἔβαλλον”.

περί is often used of sound heard: cp. 17. 261 “περὶ δέ σφεας ἤλυθ᾽ ἰωὴ φόρμιγγος”. So “ἀμφί”, as 1. 352 “ἀκουόντεσσι νεωτάτη ἀμφιπέληται”.

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

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