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[98] ἀδηκότες recurs outside this book (312, 399, 471) only in Od. 12.281 (always in the same connexion), with Od. 1.134 “ἀδήσειεν”. In the last case the word means feel disgust, and we should probably read “ἀηδήσειεν” with Wackernagel (cf. H. G. p. 25). But this does not explain the present phrase. Nor is any satisfactory sense to be got from “ἄδην” or “ἄδδην” 5.203, where the “α_” is equally puzzling. Schulze (Q. E. p. 454), comparing Od. 6.2 “ὕπνωι καὶ καμάτωι ἀρημένος”, would read “ἀρηότες”, cf. “τετιηώς” beside “τετιημένος, βεβαρηώς, κεκορηώς”. This gives the required sense, worn out (see note on 18.435), but there is no particle of evidence for it. It is simpler to say that though the meaning of the word is obvious, its affinities are unknown. ὕπνωι, drowsiness, cf. Horace's “ludo fatigatumque somno”, Juvenal's “somno fameque urguentur” (vi. 424) , and Aisch. Eum. 127 “ὕπνος πόνος τε κύριοι συνωμόται”. The variant of Zen., which brings “ὕπνωι” into connexion with “κοιμήσωνται”, looks like a conjecture.

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

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