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[345] γαίης depends on νόστου, as in “νόστον Ἀχαιίδος”, Od.23. 68; cp. also “γῆς πατρῴας νόστοςEur. I. T.1066.Others take “γαίης Φαιήκων” in direct apposition to “νόστου”, inasmuch as his getting home actually consisted in a landing on Phaeacian ground. Notice that “νόστος” is used here merely of ‘coming’ to a place, without any idea of ‘returning.’ But, probably, the notion of getting home, coming to rest, is not absent.

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    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1066
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