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[203] The vulgate “ἴδηι” for ἴδηις might be accepted if written “ἴδη᾽”（“αι”), but the contracted form is late. Ar. preferred it, though in this verb there appears to be no distinction whatever in sense between the active and middle voices. (Cf. particularly “ἴδον .. ἴδωμαι”, l. 262.) In the subj. the latter is commoner, except in the 1st pers. pl., where “ἰδώμεθα” is not found. See also 3.163, 4.205, 13.449, 15.32. The hiatus after “ἵνα” and the neglected “ϝ” of “ϝίδηις” suggest that “ὕβριν” is wrong, especially as the word is almost purely Odyssean, recurring in Il. only in 214 (“ὑβρίζοντες” 11.695, “ὑβριστῆισι” 13.633, both very late passages).

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

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