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[807] ἀλιτήμενος. This form, and also “ἀλαλήμενος, ἀκαχήμενος, βλήμενος, ἐληλάμενος, κτάμενος, οὐτάμενος”, etc., are rightly given by Aristarchus with the proparoxyton accent, as participles from the non-thematic aor., and not from the perfect. Here “ἀλιτήμενος” is almost equivalent to ‘a sinner.’ “ἀλιταίνειν” governs the accusative, as in Il.9. 375; 19.265; sup. 378, so that θεοῖς here is an ethical dative=‘in the eyes of the gods:’ compare “δαίμοσιν εἶναι ἀλιτρός” Il.23. 595, “καί σφιν γαμβρὸς Διός ἐσσι” sup. 569.

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

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