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Book Ten
158 Ad£ TTO81 Kivfjaocs is formular and apparently not discourteous, cf.
Od. 15.45 (Telemakhos rousing Peisistratos), where the scholia explain
Nestor's behaviour here by reflecting that his age would prevent his
stooping. 'Apparently the Alexandrians had no feeling for such a sign of
rough camaraderie' (Hoekstra on Od. 15.45). — veiKecje T' dvrnv: ironical,
cf. Od. 8.158 for a malicious sense of the formula.
159 Aristarchus hesitated between iypso and dpaeo (Did/A). Eust. 519.32
cites a plus-verse, 6 Nsorcop TCO Aiouf|8r| TTOU [SC. in this passage] (prjcnv,
"eypEO, ... [XT] TIS TOI [KCC6]EU8OVTI ueTOC9p6vcp ev 86pu 7rf|£n" (= 8.95,
which has 96uyovTi in mid-verse). But the verse has not wandered directly
from book 8; it was the point of an indecent joke by Diogenes, who substituted
E08OVTI for 96uyovTi, a joke famous enough to find its way into the
doxographies (see Diog. Laert. 6.53), whence it obtained this first small
foothold in the text. dcoTeis: an Odyssean word (10.548), glossed by Hsch.
with diravOi^Eiv, i.e. it was taken as a denominative of OCCOTOS. Other conjectures
in Frisk, GEW s.v.
160 dteis, an epic verb, is rather loosely used as 'realize' (properly 'perceive
by hearing'). (Tpcoes) 6*TTI Opcoaucp TreSioio is formular, adapted
from the whole-verse formula Tpcoes 8' aOO' exepcoOev eiri Opcoauco TTS8IOIO
(11.56 = 20.3, in both cases of the Trojans arming for battle after their
bivouac outside the city). The 0pcoa|i6s ('rising ground') cannot be
identified at the present day.
164 Diomedes affects to protest, not at being awakened by a kick, but at
Nestor's indefatigable activity, cf. Od. 12.279-80 ax^TAios els, 'OBuaeO* irepi
TOI uevos OU8E TI yula | Kauvsis. ax^TAios properly expresses exasperation at
outrageous behaviour, cf. 2.ii2n., 9-i9n. and AbT on this verse - 6 d£ioc
dyavccKTrjaecos Trpdaacov, but here of course the exasperation is a comic
pretence, dufixavos, 'impossible', at 167 continues Diomedes' humorous
expostulation.
166 iTTEixa: 'then' or 'therefore'. Ameis-Hentze cite 243 as a parallel. Or
the poet adapted the very common 6s (etc.) uev STteiTa (i8x //., 20X Od.)
at verse-end or verse-beginning.
168 Except in this verse Nestor is always given the formula TOV 8'
fjuEipeT' eTreiTa (8x //., 3X Od.) not its equivalent TOV 8* CCOTE Trpoaeenre.
There is no contextual explanation of this preference, which seems to imply
a hardening of the sentence into a virtual whole-verse formula. It is significant
that a usage persisting throughout the rest of the Iliad and in the
Odyssey is not maintained in this Book.
169 = 23.626 (5X //., 3X Od., with various vocatives). For the meaning
ofKonrd uoipocv see M. Finkelberg, CPh 82 (1987) 135-8; KOCTOC uoipccv, with
long a, means 'in orderly succession', e.g. of troops (16.367), the linguistically
more recent KCCTOC uoTpocv, with short a, means 'rightly'. The formula
Korrd KOCTUOV shows a similar evolution.
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