[418] ἔπλεο: thou art, lit. thou becamest by decree of fate ordered at thy birth; cf. “ἐνὶ φρεσὶ τοῦτο νόημα ι ἔπλετο” this thought came into thy mind Od. 2.363 f.
τῷ: therefore; she infers from the foregoing, not the fact but the justification of the expressions “αἰνὰ τεκοῦσα, κακῇ αἴσῃ”. κάκῃ αἴσῃ: to an evil lot, as 5.209; cf. “ἄνδρα θνητὸν ἐόντα, πάλαι πεπρωμένον αἴσῃ Π 441, ἰῇ ἄρα γεινόμεθ̓ αἴσῃ Χ” 477.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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