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[125] “αἱ Ἀριστάρχου εἰ ἐτεόν περ, ἵν᾽ ἦι, ταῦτα δὲ ὑμᾶς εἰκὸς εἰδέναι ἀκηκοότας, εἰ ἀληθῆ λέγω. αἱ δὲ δημώδεις” ὡς ἐτεόν περ, Did. Our MSS. all agree with the “δημώδεις”. We must take ἀκουέμεν in the pregnant sense, ‘to know by having heard’; cf. 24.543 “καὶ σέ, γέρον, τὸ πρὶν μὲν ἀκούομεν ὄλβιον εἶναι”, and so Od. 2.118, Od. 3.193, Od. 4.94. “ἀκούω” is in fact a (thematic) perfect in form as well as sense; H. G. p. 396. Ye must have heard these things, whether it (what I say) is true, or, acc. to Darbishire, Rell. Phil. p. 27, if it is to be said, deriving (“ϝ”）“ετέος” from (“ϝ”）“ημί”, say.

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

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