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[413] They penned him in their midst, bringing a bane (cf. 347 among themselves. For τιθέντες Zenod. read “δὲ ἔλσαν”, an expression which by no means gains in force what it loses in Homeric simplicity. Still it gives the right sense; Ar. wrongly understood it to mean ‘bringing destruction to Odysseus in their midst.’

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