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[317] Ar. and Aph.athetized 317-27 “ὅτι ἄκαιρος ἡ ἀπαρίθμησις τῶν ὀνομάτων: μᾶλλον γὰρ ἀλλοτριοῖ τὴν Ἥραν ἢ προσάγεται. καὶ ὁ ἐπειγόμενος συγκοιμηθῆναι διὰ τὴν τοῦ κεστοῦ δύναμιν πολυλογεῖ”. It might be added that the whole character of the passage reminds one of the Hesiodean “κατάλογοι γυναικῶν” or “Ἠοῖαι”, and that the legends named, though familiar in classical times, are not Homeric; the birth of Herakles from Alkmene is mentioned in 19.99, a late passage, and Dionysos is definitely late (see on 6.130). Demeter too has no real personality in H. except in Od. 5.125, where we are told of an amour of far more primitive character than this. But the whole of the “ἀπάτη” contains myths not elsewhere found in H.; so that this does not form a convincing objection to the passage in this place. The wife of Ixion was named Dia, according to the legend which recurs in various mythographers.

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

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