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[470] ἴαυον, like soldiers on watch; see on 325. παρά goes with the verb; it is not used by Homer as a preposition in temporal sense (‘by nights,’ Paley). εἰνάνυχες should be an adverb, formed, but not correctly, on the analogy of “εἰνάετες”, where the “-ες” is part of the nounstem “ἐτεσ-” (“εἰνα” = “ἐνϝα”, from env-n, Schulze Q. E. 107). It is, however, possible to make it a nom. pl., on the analogy of “τριταῖος ἦλθεν”, etc., where the adjective, however, is regularly used to express a point, not duration, of time. αὐτῶι, my person, expressing the closeness of the watch.

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

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