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164.] VOCATIVE. 155<br />

163.] Interjectional Nominative. The Nom. is not unfrequently<br />

used in Homer without any regular construction, as a<br />

kind <strong>of</strong> exclamation :<br />

e.g.<br />

II. 5- 4O5 aoi *<br />

cirl<br />

TOVTOV avfJKe Oca yXavK&TTis 'AOrivr),<br />

vrjTTios, ov8e TO oi6e KT\. fool ! he knows not fyc.<br />

Similarly o-xerAios cruel! bvo-fjLopos <strong>the</strong> unhappy one! (Od. 20.<br />

194) : and so II. i. 231 br]fjLoj36pos pacnkevs I Cp. <strong>the</strong> inter jectional<br />

use <strong>of</strong> albas shame ! (II. 5. 787., 13. 95., 16. 422).<br />

A similar account may be given <strong>of</strong> one or two passages in<br />

which commentators generally suppose<br />

'<br />

anacoluthon ' : viz.<br />

II. 10. 436 rov 877 KaAAioTovs fonrovs Ibov ?)5e<br />

AevKorepoi ^LOVOS, deiLv 6 GLV^OKTIV<br />

whiter than snow <strong>the</strong>y are ! &c. ;<br />

and so in <strong>the</strong> equally abrupt<br />

II.<br />

10. 547 ctiVwy aKTiv(T(nv eouores ?]eAioio.<br />

2.<br />

353 a

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