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[454] πύκα goes with “εἴρυντο, στιβαρῶς” with “ἀραρυίας”. For εἴρυντο cf. 1.216. But the Homeric form is “εἰρύατο”: P. Knight conj. “ἐρύοντο”. The σανίδες seem here to be literally the boards of which the two doors are made (the epithets shew that πύλαι cannot mean the opening as opposed to the two doors which close it'. But it is to the two doors that the name “σανίδες” is usually given, e.g. 121, Od. 2.344 (where the epithet “δικλίδες”, here belonging to “πύλαι”, is applied to “σανίδες”).

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

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