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[447] οὕτως, not properly an adverb of place, but used to emphasize the words “ἐς μέσσον”, ‘to the middle, as I tell you’: cp. the use in the phrase “μὰψ οὕτω” ( Il.2. 120), lit. ‘vainly—just so,’ = ‘quite vainly,’ and similar phrases in Attic (“σαφῶς οὑτωσί”, &c.); also the idiomatic use of “τόσον” (15. 405) and “τοῖον” (15. 451), and of “ὧδε” in l. 544 (infra). In these uses it is generally unnecessary to suppose any explanatory gesture.

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