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[261] μέγα ἔργον. All the passages, both in Iliad and Odyssey, give for this phrase one of three meanings: (1) ‘arduous,’ ‘troublesome,’ as supra 227; infra 275; Od.4. 663; 12.373; 19.92; 21. 26; 22. 149; or (2) ‘bold,’ Od.11. 474; 22.438; (3) in a bad sense, ‘audacious,’ ‘shameless,’ ‘impious,’ as here, and Od.11. 272.But it is not easy to keep these meanings quite distinct.

γάρ here, as often, gives the reason of what follows: because we were kept at Troy, therefore Aegisthus was left to his own devices.

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

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