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Book Ten
41 Nu£ was a goddess (14.259, Hesiod, Theog. 123, and many early
cosmogonies; see G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Presocratic
Philosophers, 2nd edn (Cambridge 1983) 19-24). The epithet &uppoorr| (4x
//., including the variant at 2.57, 2X Od.) recognizes in the hours of darkness
the numinous quality that brought about the deification, see West on
Od. 4.429. J. Puhvel, ^eitschr. f. vergleich. Sprachforschung 73 (1956) 210,
revives an ancient idea that links the 'ambrosial night' with sleep (cf.
&u(3p6crios... UTTVOS, 2.19), taking &u(3p6crios as 'dispensing vital force'. Leaf
records earlier speculations at 2.i9n. This Book disposes of a duplicate
formula, VUKTCC 5I' 6pcpvair)v (83, 276, 386 (v.l. &|i(3poair)v), and as a v.l. at
142). VUKTOC 6i J opcpvocirtv is Odyssean (9.143, cf. HyHerm 578). The Odyssey
has also VUKTOC 81a Bvcxpepfjv {Od. 15.50). For an attempt to suit these
epithets (best regarded as semantically redundant) to their contexts see
Austin, Archery 71-3. 8paauK&p5io$: the second hemistich = 13.343.
43 For XP 6C *> w ith ace. of the person in need see 9-75n. SioTpecpes co
MsveAoce: cf. Od. 4.26, 4.561. The Iliadic formula is & MEVEAOCE 8iOTpe -pE- (Risch, Wortbildung 131). 'AyccuEuvovEos (10.326,
etc.) will then be a secondary extension of the formation. — ETrmdEvai 4dative
9p£vi, e.g. Od. 5.427, 21.1, is 'to implant a thought in someone else's
mind'; here the active voice + accusative 9p£va must signify 'apply one's
own mind to', 'pay attention to'. The expression does not recur in the epic.
47 EKAUOV a08f|