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[69] κριθῶν: the rule that the open form “-έων” is written (with synizesis) unless a vowel precedes is arbitrary, and not supported by MSS. The contraction is suspicious; but metrical necessity may have introduced it in such forms when “-έων” of the vernacular had begun to supplant the older “-άων” in the poetical language. δράγματα: “δάργματα” Hartel (Hom. Stud. i. 81), on account of the preceding short syll., comparing “δάρχμη” by “δράχμη”. There is no other case where position before mute and liquid is neglected in this place in the line.

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

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