W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 3 (γ）, line 248

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[248] πῶς ἔθαν̓, ‘How was it that he died?’ Telemachus knew the fact of his death and something of the circumstances (cp. 193-203); but he wishes for a full account. Cp. Plato, Phaedo, 57 A “τί οὖν δή ἐστιν ἅττα εἶπεν ὁ ἀνὴρ πρὸ τοῦ θανάτου; καὶ πῶς ἐτελεύτα; … καὶ γὰρ … οὐδεὶς … σαφές τι ἀγγεῖλαι οἷός τ᾽ ἦν περὶ τούτων πλήν γε δὴ ὅτι φάρμακον πιὼν ἀποθάνοι” . But it is simpler to take πῶς here not as asking for details of the case, but expressing wonder how it was that Agamemnon came to such an end.

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

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