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[274] The Homeric form is not ὦσι but “ἔωσι” (except in the very late passage Od. 24.491). We cannot read “μάρτυρ᾽ ἔωσι”, as the elision of -“οι” in the nom. plur. is inadmissible; van L.'s “μαρτυρέωσι” is possible, though the verb happens not to occur in H. Eust. mentions a variant “ὅσσοι ἔνερθε θεοί”, but the passages quoted to defend the omission of the subjunctive of “εἰμί” are insufficient to justify it here (1.547, 5.481, 11.477, 14.376, Od. 15.394. Cf. also “ἦισιν” for “ἔηισιν,” 19.202, Od. 8.580). Nauck would expel 272-74 altogether.

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

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