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[167] εὐδείελον. The Scholia give various interpretations of this word, “εὖ πρὸς τὴν δείλην κειμένη, δείλη γὰρ ἡ δύσις . . καὶ γὰρ ἐπιφέρει ‘πρὸς ζόφον.’ . . ἕλη γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ ἡλίου αὐγὴ, ὅθεν καὶ τὸ εἱληθερεῖν τὸ ἡλίῳ χρῆσθαι”. This represents generally the view taken by Buttm. Lexil. p. 220 foll., and so Düntzer, who translates the word ‘abendschön,’ describing a place ‘that slopes to the western beams.’ (Shelley, ‘Arethusa.’) The other interpretations given in the Scholia are “εὐπεριόριστος, πᾶσαι γὰρ αἱ νῆσοι εὐκατάληπτον ἔχουσι τὸν περιορισμὸν ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἤπειρον”, or again “ἐπιφανής”, and this indeed seems to be the right rendering, if with Curt. (Gk. Etym. 213) we take “εὐδείελος” as only another form for “εὐδέελος”, i.e. “εὐδῆλος” from the root “διϝ”.

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

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