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[365] ἐπενήνοθεν. La Roche, Hom. Stud. 68. 16, adopts the results of Buttmann's criticism, Lexil. 130 foll. which refers “ἐνήνοθε” to a theme “ἔνθω” or “ἐνέθω”, with the meaning ‘is laid upon.’ Curtius, G. E. p. 226, refers both “ἀνή-νοθε” and “ἐνή-νοθε” to the same root (? “αθ”) as “ἄνθο-ς”. Ameis, ad loc., derives “ἐπ-εν-ήνοθε”, with its sister compounds “κατ-εν-ήνοθε” and “παρ-εν-ήνοθε” (the latter an Alexandrine form), from an obsolete “ἀν-έθω” belonging to a root αν, ‘to shine.’ Translate, ‘[such divine splendors] as deck (or ‘as cover’) the everliving gods.’ οἷα is not used merely adverbially, but takes up generally the idea suggested by the emphatic epithet ἀμβρότῳ. Others takeοἷα as equivalent to ‘in such manner as’ (cp. Hom. Od.9. 128; 11. 364), and make ἔλαιον the subject to “ἐπενήνοθε”, ‘it is shed over’ the gods.

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

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