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[680] ἐκ πολέων, i.e. picked horses, for his feats would be possible only on a carefully-matched team. συναείρεται (aor. subj.), harnesses together, see note on 10.499. The on y authority for the word here is Porphyrios who quotes (from an unknown Philemon) “συναγείρεται” as an instance of the “ἁμαρτήματα γραφικὰ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα παραδιορθώματα πάνυ ἄγροικα” which disfigure the text of H.: “ἐνταῦθα γὰρ πρὸς οὐδὲν ἀναγκαῖον ἐγράφη διὰ τοῦ γ . . τὸ δὲ χωρὶς τοῦ γ γράφειν Ὁμηρικόν . . τὸ γὰρ συναείρεται μᾶλλον προσεχῶς σημαίνει τὸ συνάγειν καὶ συναρμόζειν”. It does not appear however that he has any grounds for the change beyond conjecture. As Philemon quotes Alexander of Kotyaia, he cannot have lived before the 2nd cent. A. Farther D. back the reading cannot be traced. See Schrader Porph. p. 287. πίσυρας, see H. G. § 130. 3.

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

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