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[192] The vulg. “πολυδακρύτου” is of course metrically impossible (“υ_”): πολυδακρύου is defensible (“δάκρυον” by “δάκρυ”), but no doubt Bentley is right in reading “πολυδάκρυος”, cf. 544 “ὑσμίνη ἀργαλέη πολύδακρυς”. The same change should perhaps be made in Tyrt.11. 7 “Ἄρηος πολυδακρύου ἔργ᾽ ἀΐδηλα”, but “πολυδακρύου” seems to have stood in the Homeric text in Euripides' time, see “τὸν πολυδάκρυον Ἅιδαν” Eur. Herc. 427(with W.-M.'s note), where again MSS. have “πολυδάκρυτον”, against the metre. So also Ap. Rhod. has “πολυδάκρυον” ii. 916.

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

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