Commentary on line 640
ei)resi/h. They left the realm of Hades, and fared down the Ocean-stream. Here there was no wind, perhaps because they were in an unearthly place beyond the ordinary atmosphere. So at first they went on by rowing (or it was rowing that took them on, see crit. note), and then, as they got into the ordinary world again, there was fair wind. εἰρεσίη, in the nominative, seems to make a better parallel with οὖρος.
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