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[3] πάλιν, away (cf.3.427, 21.415, Aisch. Ag. 777 “παλιντρόποις ὄμμασι” etc.), though the general direction remains the same (N.W.). Zeus is still on Ida, see 11.182, 12.252; but it does not follow, as Porphyrios argues, that the Thracians meant were the Asiatic branch of the Thracian stock, the Bithynians. Similarly the Μυσοί are evidently not the Asiatic tribe S. of the Propontis (2.858), but the parent stock who had remained in the old home, and were afterwards called “Μοισοί”: “οἱ Μυσοί, Θρᾶικες ὄντες καὶ αὐτοί, καὶ οὓς νῦν Μοισοὺς καλοῦσιν: ἀφ᾽ ὧν ὡρμήθησαν καὶ οἱ νῦν μεταξὺ Λυδῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν καὶ Τρώων οἰκοῦντες Μυσοί . . καὶ Ὅμηρον δὲ ὀρθῶς εἰκάζειν μοι δοκεῖ Ποσειδώνιος τοὺς ἐν τῆι Εὐρώπηι Μυσοὺς κατονομάζειν”, Strabo vii. p. 295. For a similar tribal separation compare the “Λύκιοι”, note on 5.105.

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

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