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[77] ὕψι, afloat, perhaps a technical term, which evidently does not mean, as we might have expected, far out at sea. So in Od. 4.785 “ὑψοῦ δ᾽ ἐν νοτίωι τήν γ᾽ ὥρμισαν, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔβαν αὐτοί”, where see M. and R. ‘The expression describes a ship ready for sailing at a moment's notice. . . She hes afloat; her stern made fast with a hawser to the shore, her bows made fast to the anchor-stone (“εὐναί”).’ So also Od. 8.55, Ap. Rhod.ii. 1282 “ὑψόθι νῆ᾽ ἐκέλευσεν ἐπ᾽ εὐναίηισιν ἐρύσσαι” .

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.785
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