Commentary on line 611
For sa/wsan Ar. read σαώσαι, which is defensible on much the same grounds as πεφεύγοι above. The use of the sing, verb, even though *po/des is one of the nominatives, is sufficiently supported by Β 339, Γ 327, Od. 14.291, cf. 17.387. Bekker has ingeniously but needlessly conjectured that both readings spring from an older σαώσαιν = σαώσειαν, of which he finds another instance by reading ἄλφοιν for α<>́Λφοι in Od. 20.383. This form of the 3rd pl. opt. is sufficiently established by inscriptions from Delphi for the thematic tense (-οιν), and we should therefore be justified in assuming its existence in the aor. form, if there were any need. See G. Meyer Gr. 589, H. G. 83.
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