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[405] πολέος … ἔσται. This is sometimes taken to mean simply ‘he shall find it a thing of price;’ which is likely enough, as men in those days did not hesitate to estimate presents by their actual value. Or, perhaps, Euryalus means to say that the gift will amply make up for the affront: thus ἄξιον is not prospective but retrospective, meaning not ‘shall be worth much to him,’ potentially or actually; but ‘shall compensate him for much,’ for much injury sustained, and so, for the injury sustained from me, be it small or great.

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

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