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[382] ὅ (=‘because,’ ‘in that’), in all respects analogous to the Latin quod, and to the similar form “ὅτι”, may be used either transitively after verbs expressive of knowing, seeing, etc., cp. Od.4. 771“οὐδέ τι οἶδεν ὅ οἱ φόνος υἷι τετύκται Od., 13. 340 ἐνὶ θυμῷ ᾔδἐ ὃ νοστήσεις ὀλέσας ἄπο πάντας ἑταίρους” Od., 20. 228; 17. 545; Il.8. 32, 463; 18. 197; 19. 421; 20. 122, 466; 22. 445 etc.; or causally, Od.11. 540“γηθοσύνη ὅ οἱ υἱὸν ἔφην ἀριδείκετον εἶναι”, cp. also Od.19. 543; 21.289; Il.9. 534; 20.283. The causal sense is more common in the Odyssey, the transitive in the Iliad. In twentyfour passages out of thirty-three, “ὅ” is always followed by a monosyllabic pronoun, generally “οἱ”, once by “μευ”, twice by “μιν”. See La Roche, Homer. Stud. § 41, 13. Monro, H. G. §§ 269, 270.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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