Iliad 1:98

[Bert]

[face=SPIonic]pri/n g' a)po\ patri\ fi/lw| do/menai e(likw/pida kou/rhn[/face]
After seeing [face=SPIonic]a)po\[/face] I was looking for a word in the genitive but there isn't one. How do I translate this word, and why isn't it followed by a genitive?
Thanks in advance.

[Paul]

Hi Bert,

This is 'tmesis': [face=SPIonic]a)po\[/face] ... [face=SPIonic]do/menai[/face].

[face=SPIonic]a)po\[/face], here adverbial, is never too far from its original meaning "from, away from".

Literally, then, "to give away from" ("from themselves", in this context).

Less literally, "to give back".

Cordially,

Paul