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[354] ἵκηται, so all MSS.; edd. since Wolf have generally read “ἵκοιτο” from conjecture. In 2.4, 13.649, 15.598, 16.650, where the subj. is used in narrative of an event which is past for the narrator, it always occurs after a verb implying doubt or inquiry, and may thus be taken to vividly present the thought as it is in the mind of the character represented. In this case no such verb of doubting or seeking precedes; but the mood may with some violence still be explained as a direct presentation of Athene's thought, put, as we might almost say, between inverted commas; and the close neighbourhood of the direct statement in 348 may have contributed to this. But here, as in the cases mentioned, it is more probable that the opt. is original, and that later usage has produced an alteration of the text. See H. G. § 298 and notes on 14.165, 15.23.

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

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