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[520] νικῆσαι καὶ ἔπειτα, ‘did after all conquer.’ καὶ ἔπειτα serving to resume αἰνότατον πόλεμον πολμήσαντα, and not being a hyperbaton for “ἔπειτα καὶ νικῆσαι”.

διὰ … Ἀθήνην. This preposition is never used in Homer with the genitive, to express cause or agency. But it is commonly used with the accusative, as in Il.1. 73; 10.497; 15. 41, 71; Od.8. 82; 11. 276, 282, 437; 13. 121; 19. 154 Od., 523.These places do not show the later distinction between by means of and by reason of. Schol. T. rationalizes on this line, interpreting δἰ Ἀθήνην as “διὰ τὴν οἰκείαν φρόνησιν καὶ πανουργίαν”.

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

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