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[544] δήομεν. This word is connected with root “δα”, the long stem answering to “δα^” (“ς”) in “δέδαεν”, etc. (See Monro, H. G. § 80, who shows that we have here a subjunctive form.) Some MSS. write “δῄομεν, δῄεις” and “δῄει”, which variation may have arisen, as La Roche suggests, from a confusion on the part of the transcriber between “δήω” and “δηιόω”. With ἄνυσις cp. Il.2. 347; 4.56; and for a similar use of “πρῆξις” Il.24. 524.

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

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