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[286] πόποι. This word is best regarded as an interjection like “παπαῖ”, almost always expressive of astonishment, anger, or sorrow. But cp. Il. 2, 272.The Schol. on Od. 1.32 says, “πόποι οἱ θεοὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Δρυόπων φωνήν”, as an alternative interpretation, and some of the Alexandrine poets seem to have employed it accordingly as a vocative, as, indeed, it might be taken in h. Hom. Merc. 309; but the best grammarians concur in taking it as an interjection.

μετεβούλευσαν ἄλλως. The adverb forms a sort of epexegesis to the preposition in composition.

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

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