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[20] πύματον. This must mean “πύματος ἦν ὁ Ἄντιφος τῶν ἓξ τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως ἑταίρων οὓς. ὁ Κύκλωψ ἐθοινήσατο”, for the alternative rendering which Eustath. gives, ‘last of all men,’ necessitates an un-Homeric version of the story, which Eustath. thus quotes, “ὁ Κύκλωψ οὐκέτι ἔφαγε, συναποβαλὼν τῷ φωτὶ καὶ τὸ ζῆν ὡς λέγεται”. Cp. Od.9. 369.But perhaps the emphasis should be thrown on ὁπλίσσατο, because, after his blinding, he was, though alive, yet helpless to wait on himself.

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

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