He wishes to say the contrary, that seeing them he was disgusted.
There is also Emphasis, which through reflection adds vigor to what is said (O. xi. 523):—
But descending into the home which Epeus constructed.
In the word "descending" he reveals the great size of the house. Of the same kind is the line (I. xvi. 333):—
The whole sand was hot with blood,—
for in this he furnishes a more intense description, as if the sand was so bathed with blood that it was hot. These kind of Tropes were invented by Homer first of all.
Let us look at the changes of construction which are called figures to see if Homer also first invented these. Figure is a method of expression divergent from ordinary custom for the sake of ornament or utility, altered by a kind of fiction. For beauty is added to narrative by variety and change of expression, and these make the style more impressive. They are also useful because they exalt and intensify innate qualities and powers.
Among the figures Pleonasm is sometimes used for the sake of the metre; as in (I. xix. 247):—
Odysseus adding all ten talents of gold,—
for the word "all" is added without contributing to the sense. It is done for the sake of ornament, cf. (I. xviii. 12).—