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[100] δ̂ηξεν is undoubtedly a wrong form, unknown to Attic as well as to H. The verb occurs elsewhere in H. only with the stem “δευ-”, and always in the mid. except “ι” [483] 540 “τυτθὸν ἐδεύησεν”, just missed. Thiersch and Död. emend “ἐμεῦ δ᾽ ἐδέ”（“ϝ”）“ησεν”, others “ἐδεύετ᾽”, Menrad “ἔδευεν”. Why not “ἔδευσεν”? The root is “δευσ-” (of which the prefix “δυσ-” perhaps shews the weak form; Schulze Q. E. p. 62). The regular Epic aor. of this is “ἔδευσα” for “ἔδευσσα”, and the change to “δέω” in Attic, the “υ” becoming a semivowel and falling out, is equally in order. The form “δῆσεν” is merely a mistaken attempt to assimilate the unfamiliar form to “ἐδέησεν”, on the supposed analogy of the entirely unconnected “δέω” to bind (root “δε-”). ἄρεω, see notes on 12.334, 14.485. Parmeniskos is said to have read “Ἄρης”, and explained “ὁ πόλεμος τὴν ἐμὴν ἀφελόμενος πανοπλίαν ἔδησεν, ἐνεπόδισέ, μου τὴν ἔξοδον, ὥστε ἀλκτῆρα μὴ γενέσθαι Πατρόκλου” (?).

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

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