The understanding of the above passage is that Odysseus is at Arethousa, miraculously washed ashore there as in his visions of a drowning man washed ashore on Skheria (Sc¼edro) and finding Nausika.... (rephrase-invert).
That Athen should have appear to Odysseus at this place is consistent with her associations not only with ponds, springs, and in general all wet or humid places, but also with salt marshes (hence the name of ATHENAI (Taras /Taren-tum, Taranto), a salt-marsh, hence she gives him Odysseus like a ham, salted and smoked.

xiii, 429:
So saying, Athen touched him with her wand. She withered the fair flesh on his supple limbs, and destroyed the flaxen hair from off his head, and about all his limbs she put the skin of an aged old man. And she dimmed his two eyes that were before so beautiful, and clothed him in other rainment, a vile ragged cloack and a tunic, tattered garments and foul, begrimed with filthy smoke.

The name of Arethousa is associated with that of Aries, the Ram,

A shallow pool of varying depths (average, 2 mts) formed by the silt of the Cetina, extending from Dugi Rat in the west to Ravnice in the east.. Off the low sandy coast west of Omis is a wide (about 700 mts) shallow zone formed by the silt of the Cetina with varying depths (average 2 mts).

x, 103:
"Now when they [two men and a herald] had gone ashore, they went along a smooth road by which waggons were wont to bring wood down to the city from the high mountains. And before the city they met a maiden drawing water, the goodly daughter of Laestrygonian Antiphates, who had come down to the fair-flowing spring Artacia, from whence they were wont to bear water to the town."

The root art- instantly suggests an artesian well and appears to be akin with the name of the Vardzaei, an Illyrian folk associated with the estuaries of rivers.


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