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[44] θαύμαζον κατὰ δῶμα. Some commentators propose to connect “ἰδόντες”, in preceding line, with “κατὰ δῶμα”, but Fäsi rightly remarks that the phrase “κατὰ δῶμα” forms the object to “θαύμαζον”, or rather it is the brachylogical substitute for it, signifying in fact, ‘the house, throughout itself;’ cp. Od.9. 6.We might render the expression in Latin ‘mirabantur singula hic illic aedium.’ Compare with the sense here, though not in illustration of the idiom, Od.9. 153“νῆσον θαυμάζοντες ἐδινεόμεσθα κατ᾽ αὐτήν”.

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

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