9.500-535

Odysseus reveals his name to Polyphemus. Polyphemus recalls a prophecy he had been given that foretold all of this. He calls on his father Poseidon to deprive Odysseus of his homecoming, or at least to make it a bitter one.

501  κεκοτηότι: “angry,” pf. ptc. > κοτέω.

502-3  αἴ κέν τίς ... / ... εἴρηται: present general conditional with subjunctive (Goodell 650), αἴ κέν = ἐάν. τίς is enclitic, and accented because it is followed by the enclitic σε.

502  καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων: partitive genitives with τίς.

503  εἴρηται: subj.> ἔρομαι, in a present general conditional (Goodell 650). ἔρομαι can take two accusatives (in this case, σε and ἀεικελίην ἀλαωτύν), meaning “to ask someone about something.”

504  φάσθαι: aor. 2 mid. infin.  > φημί, used as imperative (Monro 241, Smyth 2013), here acting as the apodosis of the conditional introduced in line 502, and introducing an accusative and infinitive construction of indirect discourse.

504  ἐξαλαῶσαι: aor. act. infin. > ἐξαλαόω.

505  υἱὸν Λαέρτεω: in apposition to Ὀδυσσῆα in line 504. 

505  Λαέρτεω: gen. sing. Declined like Ἁτρείδης.  

505  Ἰθάκῃ ἔνι: ἐν Ἰθάκῃ, anastrophe.

505  οἰκί(α): > οἰκίον, τό, always used in the plural to mean “home.” Direct object of the participle ἔχοντα.

507  ἱκάνει: “come upon,” “reach, ” “catch up to” + acc. (με). The subject is the neuter plural.

507  θέσφαθ᾽: = θέσφατα, “oracles, prophecies.”

508  ἔσκε: “there used to be,” iterative impf. (Smyth 1894).

508  ἠΰς: ἐΰς, “good, noble.”

509  ἐκέκαστο: plupf. with an impf. force > καίνυμαι, “to excel in” + dative μαντοσύνῃ.

510  κατεγήρα: impf. > καταγηράσκω.

510  Κυκλώπεσσιν: “among the Cyclopes,” dative of place (Monro 145.7, Smyth 1531.a)

511  ἔφη … τελευτήσεσθαι: indirect discourse with accusative and infinitive construction. 

511  τελευτήσεσθαι: fut. mid. infin.

511  ὀπίσσω: “in the future.”

512  χειρῶν ἐξ  Ὀδυσῆος: “at the hands of Odysseus,” anastrophe (the preposition follows its noun, causing the accent on the preposition to fall back onto the first syllable). This line is in apposition to the previous line and could be introduced with “namely that…”

512  ἁμαρτήσεσθαι: fut. infin., in an accusative and infinitive construction (parallel to the construction in line 511), with “I” understood as the accusative. The verb ἁμαρτάνω is a deponent future and means “to lose” when followed by a genitive of separation.

513  ἐδέγμην: “I expected,” 1st sing. aor. > δέχομαι, introducing indirect discourse with the accusative (τινα φῶτα) and infinitive (ἐλεύσεσθαι).

514  ἐλεύσεσθαι: fut. infin. > ἔρχομαι.

514  ἐπιειμένον: “clothed in” + acc.; pf. ptc. > ἐπιέννυμι, “to put on.”

515  ἐὼν: pres. act. ptc. > εἰμί. The implied subject is “someone,” meaning Odysseus.

517  τοι πὰρ: “beside you” = παρά τοι, anastrophe. τοι is the personal pronoun, an older form of σοι.

517  ξείνια: gifts of hospitality.

517  θείω: “put,” aor. subj. > τίθημι in a purpose clause (Goodell 642).

518  δόμεναι: aor. act. infin. > δίδωμι. The accusative subject is κλυτὸν ἐννοσίγαιον (Poseidon) and the object is πομπήν.

519  τοῦ: “of this one,” “his” (referring to Poseidon).

519  εὔχεται εἶναι: “He boasts that he is…”

520  αἴ κ᾽: = ἐάν, introducing a future more vivid conditional (Goodell 650).

520  ἰήσεται: fut. indic. > ἰάομαι; understand “me” as the object.

523  αἲ γὰρ: = εἰ γὰρ, "if only," introducing the optative of wish (Goodell 477).

523  ψυχῆς τε καὶ αἰῶνός: with εὖνιν (“bereft of”), which takes a genitive.

523  σε: the object of ποιήσας ( > ποιέω) + double acc., “to make X (become) Y,” with εὖνιν as the second accusative.

524  πέμψαι: complementary aor. infin. > πέμπω after δυναίμην.  

524  Ἄϊδος: gen., = Ἀΐδαο or -εω, see LSJ ᾍδης.

525  ὡς: “so that,” introducing a result clause with future indicative (Goodell 639).

525  οὐκ … οὐδ(ε): “not even.”

525  ὀφθαλμόν γ(ε): i.e., whatever else he might heal (Edwards).

526  ὁ δ᾽: “But he,” Polyphemus.

527  χεῖρ᾽: χεῖρε, dual acc.

528  κλῦθι: aor. act. imperat. > κλύω, “hear” (compare γνῶθι, βῆθι, δῦθι).

528  γαιήοχε: “earth-holder,” i.e. either (1) surrounding or (2) supporting the earth, which may be regarded as floating on the sea (Edwards).

529  ἐτεόν: “truly,” adverbial.

529  εὔχεαι: 2nd pers. sing. (see line 519).

530  δὸς: “grant that,” 2nd aor. imperat. > δίδωμι, introducing an accusative (Ὀδυσσῆα) and infinitive (μὴ … ἱκέσθαι).

531: a repetition of line 505.

532  εἴ οἱ μοῖρ᾽ ἐστὶ: “If it is his fate (to)…,” the protasis of a mixed condition. 

532  οἱ: dative of possession.

533  ἑὴν: possessive adj., fem. acc. sing. > ἑός.

534  ὀψὲ κακῶς: understand a conjunction (“and”) between these adverbs.

534  ἔλθοι: optative of wish (Goodell 476), supplying the apodosis of the mixed conditional.

534  ὀλέσας ἄπο: "losing," tmesis (separation of the preposition and verb in a compound verb) and anastrophe > ἀπόλλυμι.

535  εὕροι: optative of wish.

535  ἐν πήματα οἴκῳ: = πήματα ἐν οἴκῳ.