A Reading Course in Homeric Greek
- NOTES
147 οἱ : dat. 3rd pers. pron., subject of λαβόντι. γοῦνα λαβόντι : in 142, this verb took the gen.,
but here it takes an acc. direct obj. φρένα : acc. of specification (§644 in Book 1).
150 τοὶ : rel. pron. whose antecedent is a θεῶν implied in θεός.
152 εἶδός τε μέγεθός τε φυήν τ’ : acc. of specification (§644 in Book 1).
154 τρὶς μάκαρες..... : εἰσί is understood.
157 λευσσόντων : agreeing in sense with the dat. of possession in 155 (σφισι). εἰσοιχνεῦσαν
should, strictly speaking, agree with the neuter θάλος, but since in this case the θάλος is
Nausicaa, the ptc. is attracted into the f. gender.
158 μακάρτατος : superlative of μάκαρ.
159 σ’ : obj. of ἀγάγηται rather than βρίσας. ἀγάγηται is subjunctive in a Future More Vivid
condition (§247a in Book 1); understand ἔσσεται as the verb in 158.- NEW GRAMMAR: Declension of τοιόσδε, τοιήδε, τοιόνδε such (as this, as that)
τοι- and –δε are not declined; -οσ-, -η-, -ον- are declined in the manner of first and second
declension adjectives such as καλός, -ή, -όν. For example,f. dat. sg. = τοι-ῇ-δε (τοιῇδε)
n. acc. pl. = τοι-ά-δε (τοιάδε)