A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 2

A Reading Course in Homeric Greek

42. NOTES

162 Delos was especially noted for a cult of Apollo; Leto stabilized herself as she gave birth

to Apollo and Artemis by throwing her arms around a palm tree (Cf. Homeric Hymn to

Apollo 115-119), which was consequently sacred.

165 ὁδόν : cognate acc. (§602 in Book 1) ἔσεσθαι : §237 in Book I.

166 ὣς δ’ αὔτως ...ὡς σέ... : the comparison is in reversed order (“Just so did I admire it...as I

admire you...”). καὶ κεῖνο : “the palm sapling, too” (as well as Nausicaa).

167 δόρυ : refers to the trunk of the young tree

170 χθιζός : an adj. of time used instead of an adv.

171 τόφρα ... αἰεὶ : “for all of that time” (twenty days, 170). φόρει : the verb agrees with its

nearer subject only, though it agrees in sense with both.

173 πάθω : purpose subjunctive (§98b in Book 1).

174 παύσεσθαι : understand κακόν as subject acc. πολλὰ : modifies an implied κακά. πάροιθεν :

i.e., before the evils stop.