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[392] ὧδε, hither, in spite of Ar.'s arbitrary canon that it means only thus in H. He explained it here “οὕτως ὡς ἔχεις, οὐδὲν ὑπερθέμενος” (An.), cf. Od. 17.447 “στῆθ᾽ οὕτως ἐς μέσσον”. But this would never be seriously maintained except for the sake of a theory. See on 10.537, 12.346, and the discussions in Lehrs Ar. 70, 379, Bekker H. B. ii. 38. Plato, when about to burn his poems (see on 17.263), is said to have apostrophized the fire, “Ἥφαιστε, πρόμολ᾽ ὧδε: Πλάτων νύ τι σεῖο χατίζει”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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