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[428] ὄφρα follows directly upon ἦλθε, the words “φέρων ἐμῷ ἄλγεα θυμῷ” being parenthetical. ‘The South came swooping down upon me, so as to make me retrace my course to Charybdis.’ Nitzsch compares Od.9. 154; 10. 236, where however “ἵνα” and not “ὄφρα” is found, but see Il.22. 329.

ἀναμετρήσαιμι is equivalent to “ἀναμετρήσας πέλαγος Χάρυβδιν ἱκοίμην”, cp. Od.3. 179.

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