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[428] ἀπορραῖσαι ‘to smite away,’ i. e. to take away with violence. The word is formed like “ἀπαράσσω, ἀπορρήγνυμι, ἀποκόπτω” (H. G. § 224): cp. 1. 404 “κτήματ᾽ ἀπορραίσειε”. Mr. T. L. Agar (Journ. of Phil. xxvi. 116) would restore “ἀποϝρῆσαι, ἀποϝρήσειε”, supposing the words to be first aorists formed from the root which we have in “ἀπηύραν”, part. “ἀπούρας”, and perhaps also in the fut. “ἀπουρήσουσιν” in Il.22. 489—if we follow the reading and analysis suggested by Buttmann and adopted by Bekker and Curtius. The proposed tense, it is evident, would yield a very suitable sense in the context. On the other hand there are considerable difficulties in regard to the form of the word. The point is, what is the root? If, as G. Meyer holds (G. G.^{2} § 527), “ἀπηύρα” is for “ἀπ-εϝρα^”, and this “ϝρα^-” is the weak form of a root “ϝερ-”, the first aorist would not be “ἔ-ϝρη-σα”, but “ἔ-ϝερ-σα” or “ἔ-ϝειρα”.

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

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