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[261] “ἄλλην ὁδὸν, ἄλλα κέλευθα”. This repetition of “ἄλλος” is generally taken as giving a sense like “ἄλλυδις ἄλλῃ” inf. 458, and so taking up “ἀποπλαγχθέντες” = ‘on various ways and various wanderings.’ But it seems simpler, following the interpretation of Schol. Q. (“ἐκ παραλλήλου τὸ αὐτό: τὰ γὰρ δύο ἓν σημαίνουσι”), to take the words as only meaning, ‘a different route and a different journey,’ sc. from the homeward direction. The use of “ἄλλος” would then be a sort of euphemism for ‘unfortunate;’ cp. Il.23. 144; and perhaps “ἑτέρως” in Od.1. 234.A similar meaning attaches to the Lat. ‘secus,’ in such phrases as ‘si secus acciderit’ Cic. Fam. 6. 21. 2, etc.

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

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