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[235] The Cyclops just enters the cave and throws down therein his bundle of firewood (ἔντοσθεν ἄντροιο); he then steps outside again and drives the ewes and she goats into the cave, leaving the rams and he-goats outside in the courtyard. Thus we can give a consistent picture by adopting the conjecture of H. Rumpf, ἔντοθεν αὐλῆς, instead of ἔκτοθεν. To make any sense of “ἔκτοθεν” we must either, with Düntzer, regard “αὐλή” as synonymous with “σπέος”, or, with Döderlein, take “ἔκτοθεν” as nothing more than an epexegesis of “θύρηφιν”, in which case βαθείης αὐλῆς must be treated as a local genitive, equivalent to ‘in the court.’ See Monro, H. G. § 149, who seems to favour this, quoting “αὐλῆς ἐκτὸς ἐών”, Od.4. 678.The form “ἔντοθεν” for the ordinary “ἔντοσθεν” is given in Cramer. Ox. An.177. 31; Bekk. An.945. 22.

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

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