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[366] ἠρήσαντο, must not only mean entertained a wish, but also expressed it aloud, being in short epexegetical of “ὁμάδησαν”. Telemachus alludes to their language about his mother in the words “ὑπέρβιον ὕβριν ἔχοντες”. The adverb παραί goes directly with κλιθῆναι, ‘to lie by her;’ λεχέεσσι is merely a local addition. Cp. Od.8. 337εὕδειν ἐν λέκτροισι παρὰ χρυσέῃ Ἀφροδίτῃ”.

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