Note 1324 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Hom. Od. XI. 127
ὁππότε κεν δή τοι ξυμβλήμενος ἄλλος ὁδίτης φήῃ ἀθηρηλοιγὸν ἔχειν ἀνὰ φαιδίμῳ ὤμῳ καὶ τότε δὴ γαίῃ πήξας εὐῆρες ἐρετμὸν κτλ.
In the Odysseus Acanthoplex of Sophocles the winnowing fan was called by another of these descriptive epithets. Eustathius has preserved the line
ὤμοις ἀθηρόβρωτον ὄργανον φέρων.
That it was understood to be simply the πτύον is clear from Porphyry (De antr. nymph. 35) ... ὡς πτύον ἡγεῖσθαι εἶναι τὴν κώπην. Eustathius (§ 1675) pertinently observes πλάτη γὰρ θαλασσία τὸ ἐρετμὸν καὶ πλάτη χερσαία τὸ πτύον.