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[214] χευάντων. Here, as often, an indefinite subject in the plural has to be supplied, as with “θέντων” Od.19. 599.Cp. also Od.1. 194; 5.273; 7.10; Il.4. 477; 5.306; 18. 487, 493; 22. 389; 23. 705; 24. 316. Similar to this is the use of “φασί” Od.1. 220; 3. 84, 212; 4. 387; 6. 42.

μῦθοι … ἔσονται, ‘but there shall be stories in the morning for Telemachus and me to tell at length (“διαειπέμεν”) to each other.’ With the infinitive διαειπέμεν after “ἔσονται” cp. Il.13. 312“ἀμύνειν εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι Il., 15. 129 οὔατ̓ ἀκουέμεν ἕστι”.

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

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