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[2] ἀρημένος. This word the Schol. interprets by “βεβλαμμένος”. It is used ( Od.9. 403) to express the affliction of the blinded Cyclops; and ( Od.18. 53) the miserable plight of Odysseus when disguised as a beggar, “δύῃ ἀρημένος”. In Il.18. 435 we have “γήραϊ λυγρῷ ἀρ.”, and in Od.11. 136“γήραι ὑπὸ λιπαρῷ ἀρ.” The etymology is uncertain. Döderl. regards it as a perfect participle from “ἀρᾶν”, a simpler form of “ἀράσσειν”, comparing “ἀρατὸν ἕλκος” Soph. Ant.972, and suggesting a connection with “ἀραιός”. Düntzer refers it to “ἀρή” (“α^”), a word itself of doubtful derivation; cp. “ἀρὴν ἀμῦναι” Il.12. 334.Thiersch takes it from a form “ϝαρέω” = “βαρέω”, as if it were “ϝε ϝαρημένος”, and this notion of ‘over-weighed’ suits well with a similar phrase, “καμάτῳ ἁδηκότες ἠδὲ καὶ ὕπνῳ” Od.12. 281.Unless we can translate ὕπνῳ by ‘sleepiness,’ we must regard the whole expression as an instance of syllepsis; as in Tacit. Ann.4. 14‘ubi nocte et laetitia incaluisse videt;’ or it may be a sort of “ἓν διὰ δυοῖν”, meaning ‘oppressed with the sleep that weariness brings.’ Cp. Horace, Od.3. 4. 11‘ludo fatigatumque somno.’ Some interpreters, according to Eustath., joined “ὕπνῳ” with “καθεῦδε”.

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

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