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[412] The indicative σκαίρουσιν (for which Bekk. ii. conjectures “σκαίρωσιν”) is a real anacoluthon, “ὡς ὅτ᾽ ἄν” being always followed by the subjunctive. But the construction is broken by the introduction of the parenthetical clause, and “σκαίρουσιν” begins as it were a principal sentence. The cows have been out in a drove (“ἀγελαίας”) to pasture, and when they return to the fold-yard (“κόπρος”, lit. =‘the mixen’), the calves who have remained at the farm, penned up, welcome them with frisking and lowing.

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

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