[23] γλυκερὸν φάος. Mr. T. L. Agar has recently pointed out (Journal of Philology, xxvii. 194) that φάος here is not a vocative, as the commentators have assumed (comparing such phrases as Latin mea lux). The word when used metaphorically in Homer always means ‘success,’ ‘salvation,’ or the like. Mr. Agar takes it as an ‘accusative of apposition.’ This is a well-known Homeric idiom (cp. Il.3. 50-51. Il., 24. 735, &c.). But the nearest parallels that he quotes are Il.17. 615“καὶ τῷ μὲν φάος ἦλθε” ‘he came as a rescue,’ Il.8. 282“αἴ κέν τι φόως Δαναοῖσι γένηαι” (= 11. 797) Il., 18. 102“Πατρόκλῳ γενόμην φάος”. In these passages it is evidently a nominative, and so probably in the present case.
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