[311] ἀμαιμάκετον ‘of vast length,’ probably formed by intensive reduplication from the root “μακ-” (cp. “δαίδαλος, παίπαλος, μαιμάω”) with the suffix “-τος”, as “περι-μήκετος, πάχετος”. The “ἀ-” is prothetic, as in “ἀμαλδύνω, ἀμύνω, ἀμαυρός”. The derivation from “μαιμάσσω” ‘to rage, storm’ (Ameis, &c.) is plausible, but the senses which it yields—‘not to be raged against,’ ‘invincible,’ or (with prothetic “ἀ-”) ‘raging,’ ‘furious’—hardly suit this passage. Such an epithet might however be applied to a mast in a spirit of burlesque, such as we occasionally trace in the Odyssey.
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