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[11] Both “ἀτιμάω” and “ἀτιμάζω” occur in our texts, but the aor. is elsewhere only “ἠτίμησεν”, and “ἀτιμάζω” is peculiar to the Odyssey. Rhythm, however, is a strong argument here in favour of ἠτίμασεν in place of the vulgate “ἠτίμησ᾽”. Nauck indeed wishes to expel “ἀτιμάω” from the text of Homer altogether; but v. Curtius Vb. i. p. 341 n. τὸν Χρύσην ... ἀρητῆρα: a use of the article which ‘is scarcely to be paralleled in Homer.’ In other examples with a proper noun it is used with an adversative particle (“αὐτάρ, μέν, δέ”), and only of a person already mentioned, e.g. 2.105 (Monro). It would simplify this passage if we could take “Χρύσης” as an appellative, ‘that man of Chryse, even the priest’; but there seems to be no other instance either of a local name thus formed in “-ης”, or of a person addressed directly by a local name, as in 442 “ὦ Χρύση”. Payne Knight conj. “τοι”, Nauck “τοῦ”, for “τόν”.

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

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