Note 28 — Chapter V
Reading edition
The first, in
ΠΥΘ
. A. v. 28.
γαν τε και ποντον κατ' ἀμαιμακετον
The second, in ΠΥΘ. P. v. 57-8.
Πεμψε κασιγνηταν μενει; Θυοισαν ἀμαιμακετῳ·
where the scholiast explains it by ἀκαταμαχητος, and the notes deduce it from a compound of the A ἐπιτατικη and μαιμαω: a derivation more probable than that of our translator from ἁμα, and the Doric μακος; unless we suppose that Homer made use for his substantives, of the Ionic, and for his compound adjectives, of the Doric dialects!