νωνύμνους ἀπολέσθαι ἀπ’ Ἄργεος ἐνθάδ’ Ἀχαιούς[642].
a line repeated elsewhere. On the other hand, the word in some places has undoubtedly a limited meaning only.
6. Again, we find the word Ἀχαίïς γαῖα, used apparently with the intention of signifying the whole Greek country; as in the first Iliad by Nestor;
ὦ πόποι, ἢ μέγα πένθος Ἀχαίïδα γαῖα ἱκάνει[643].
7. And we have the same word Ἀχαίïς without γαῖα, both in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
For instance, when Nestor and Ulysses were collecting the Greek forces, they were
λαὸν ἀγείροντες κατ’ Ἀχαίïδα πουλυβότειραν[644].
And Ulysses, addressing his mother in the Shades beneath, says,
οὐ γάρ πω σχέδον ἦλθον Ἀχαίïδος, οὐδέ πω ἀμῆς
γῆς ἐπέβην[645].