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[431] ἀρεῖηι, also 20.109, 21.339, both times in similar phrases. Platt (C. R. i. p. 280) takes it to mean entreaty here and in “Φ”, regarding the use in “γ” as a mistake on the part of the author of that late passage. The sense of reviling, however, is quite admissible in all passages; and the first syll. of “ἀρή”, prayer, is invariably long in H. (= “ἀρϝά”?). “α?̓ρής” = bane, which offers a sufficiently good basis for the sense reviling, is an entirely different word; see notes on 37, 12.334.

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

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