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Book Eleven
Peloponnesos are the 'Eireioi (2.619), as indeed the Pylians' enemies are
called at 688, etc. There was a story that after the Trojan war the Aetolian
Oxulos occupied the country and expelled or absorbed the Epeans (Strabo
8.3.33, Paus. 5.4.1-3).
67a Itumoneus, like Ereuthalion in another of Nestor's tales (7.136),
is known only from this reference.
673 5Ta is the standard epithet for Elis (3X //. in this episode, 3X
Od.), but is almost certainly generic with any place-name of appropriate
metrics, cf. AaKeBcciuova 6Tav (3X Od.).
674 (bucjia are pledges seized as surety for repayments, or simply booty
seized in reprisal. It is odd that that a term so appropriate to a principal
diversion of the heroic world should occur only here in the epic. The offence
for which this freebooting of Nestor's was retaliation is told at 6g8ff.
677 f^Aida TTOAATJV is Odyssean (4X ) except for this one occurrence.
678 (3ocov dysAoci KCCI mbea oicov, with variants, is formular (2X //., 2X
Od.). The hiatus between ircoea and oicov suggests that it is secondary to
the singular (3ocov &yeAr|v KCCI TTCOU u£y' oicov (696, 15.323 and Od. 12.299).
Hesiod, Erga 786, substituted uf|Acov for oicov to smooth the rhythm.
683 yeyr)66i 6E