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[477] βοηθόον: the word recurs in H. only in 17.481 (both times with the variant “βοῆι θοόν”), and in the patronymic “Βοηθοΐδης” Od. 4.31, Od. 15.95, 140, which shews that the word was felt as a real compound at an early date. So we have “βοηθός” and the verb “βοηθεῖν” as early as Herod., and “βοηδρομεῖν” in Euripides formed analogically. Hence Ar. was no doubt right in preferring the form “βοηθόος”. (The accent shews that it is from “θέω”, not directly from “θοός”). The testimony of MSS. is immaterial. See note on 1.74 for similar cases. The caesura seems to shew that “ἀρηΐφιλος” is a real compound in 3.21, etc. αὖε, see 11.461.

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

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