W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 11 (λ）, line 485

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[485] κρατέεις νεκύεσσιν. The common construction with “κρατεῖν” is the genitive, as Il.1. 79, 288; Od.15. 274.The construction with the dative is found only here, and in Od.16. 265.Perhaps νεκύεσσι should be regarded as a local dative only, ‘among the dead;’ or even as an ethical dative, ‘thou art mighty in the eyes of the dead.’ Cp. Od.4. 509.

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

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