πὰρ᾽ ἒξ ὁδοῦ
An ambusher may hide just off a road to attack someone traveling along it. In the Homeric epics we have another example of this strategy in one of Odysseus’ Cretan lies in Odyssey 13; Odysseus describes a similar position for the ambush he narrates there: ἐγγὺς ὁδοῖο λοχησάμενος (Odyssey 13.268). We also see such a place for an ambush in Pindar’s description of Herakles’ ambush of the Molione (Olympian 10.26–34, ἐφ’ ὁδῷ, 10.30). At this point we begin to see how easily a spying mission transitions into an ambush once the presence of the enemy is detected.