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[496] ἦνον, from “ἄνω”, epic form of “ἀνύω”, ‘made for their journey's end;’ literally, ‘sought to finish their journey.’

τοῖον. See on Od. 1.209, and compare it further with Od.1. 409.τόδ᾽ “ἱκάνει”, both words being properly adjectives, in agreement with a neuter accusative cognate. Cp. Od.23. 18“τοιόνδε κατέδραθον Od., 24. 62 τοῖον γὰρ ὑπώρορε Μοῦσα”, and again 1. 140 “οἷον ἀναΐξας ἄφαρ οἴχεται Od., 2. 239 νεμεσίζομαι οἷον ἅπαντες ἧσθε”.

ὑπέκφερον. This verb is used transitively in later Greek, as Apoll. Rhod. 1. 1264 “πόδες αὐτὸν ὑπέκφερον ἀίσσοντα”, and may be so rendered here, ‘bore them forward.’ But we may, with Eustath., take the verb intransitively, as in Hdt.4. 125, and as “ἐκφέρειν” is used in Il.23. 376, 759=‘dashed forward.’

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

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