W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 9 (ι）, line 445

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[445] λάχνῳ στεινόμενος, ‘cumbered by his wool and me,’ that is, ‘by me sticking to his wool,’ for the weight of the wool itself does not properly enter into the description. Thus we may take λάχνῳ καὶ ἐμοί as a species of hendiadys; cp. Od.19. 396“κλεπτοσύνῃ θ᾽ ὅρκῳ τε”. But the particular combination is no doubt chosen to give a comic touch to the whole. The unexpected addition of ἐμοί after λάχνῳ would be described in later Greek as a true “σκῶμμα παρὰ προσδοκίαν”.

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

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