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[363] ἔνδον ἐόντα, apparently being (a guest) within the walls of Troy, a rather strange expression. In 15.438 we have “Κυθηρόθεν ἔνδον ἐόντα”, which is more natural as it is followed by “ἐν μεγάροισιν”. A truly wonderful variant is given by Didymos, “ἐν τῆι Ἀργολικῆι Ἑκάβης νόθον υἱὸν ἐόντα: καὶ τάχα ἂν εἴη ἁμάρτημα, κατ᾽ ἄγνοιαν τῆς Καβήσου” (to judge from the various conjectural sites given by Schol. T, ranging from Thrace to Lykia, ignorance of Kabesos was not confined to Argolis). It is hardly necessary to say that illegitimate sons are ascribed by H. to ladies of high degree only when the father is a god; nor did Homeric Greeks, like those of Alexandria, marry their half-sisters. A still stranger reading mentioned by the scholia is “ἐνδονέοντα, κεκινημένον”.

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

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