ε336Ἔθυσας ἀντιθύσῃ
you sacrificed [so] you should sacrifice in turn
The Cyclops says this to Odysseus in Philoxenus. For they misinterpret the [Homeric line] "and then we kindled a fire and sacrificed;" in the Poet [this] is said about sheep, and does not mean we sacrificed.
Ἔθυσας, ἀντιθύσῃ· τοῦτο παρὰ Φιλοξένῳ ὁ Κύκλωψ λέγει πρὸς τὸν Ὀδυσσέα. ἀπεκδέχονται γὰρ τό, ἔνθα δὲ πῦρ κείαντες ἐθύ- σαμεν, παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ εἰρῆσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρνῶν, οὐχὶ δὲ τὸ…
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