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[365] ἤϊε, a word recurring only in 20.152 and Hymn. Ap. 120; like so many divine epithets it is of quite unknown meaning. Various derivations have been proposed, but all are mere guesses. Ar. wrote “ἥϊε”, deriving from “ἵημι”, to shoot, in the sense Archer. Whether it has any connexion with the commoner “ἰήϊος” is very doubtful. κάματον in concrete sense, the result of toil, as Od. 14.417 “ἄλλοι δ᾽ ἡμέτερον κάματον νήποινον ἔδουσιν. αὐτοῖσι,” the men as opposed to their work.

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

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