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[106] κρήγυον, a doubtful word; it evidently means good, though in late Greek it is sometimes used in the sense of true. But the line labours under many suspicious irregularities — the use of the article, the neglected “ϝ” of “ϝεῖπας”, and the lengthening of “τό” by position in the fourth thesis. Furthermore, “τὸ κρήγυον” in the sense that which is good is Attic, and unexampled in H. “τὰ κακά” in the next line, those evil things of thine, is entirely different. Hence Bentley's “τὰ κρήγυα” is but a partial remedy, and there seems to be some grave corruption. As we know nothing of the origin of “κρήγυον”, the “υ” may, for all we can tell, have been long; we could then read “οὔ πώ ποτέ μοι κρήγυον ἔειπας”, and the MS. variants may point to something of the sort. For the form εἶπας see H. G. § 37.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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