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[285] The hiatus before ὕλη is unexplained, except as a possible trace of the lost initial sibilant; a very doubtful resource. The variant “Ἴδη” does not help matters. Note also that this is the only place in H. where a short syllable stands before “σείω”, which is elsewhere always regarded as beginning with a double consonant, probably “σϝ”, written “σς” after the augment and in composition, just as with “σεῦαι”: see note on 11.549.

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

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