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[68] ἐλαύνειν is used, as often, of carrying out long things in a line, as with “τεῖχος, τάφρον, ἕρκος”, etc. Compare the picture of the reapers in 18.550-60. μάκαρος: Od. 1.217 “ὡς δὴ ἐγώ γ᾽ ὄφελον μάκαρός νύ τευ ἔμμεναι υἱὸς ἀνέρος”. It indicates a king who has a “τέμενος” of his own apart from the common field, and cultivates it by means of hired labourers. The word is almost always applied to gods; in the few other passages where it is used of men it indicates the very height of human happiness (3.182, 24.377, Od. 6.158, Od. 11.483, Od. 5.306).

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

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