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[246] ἀκριτόμυθε: see 796 “αἰεί τοι μῦθοι φίλοι ἄκριτοί εἰσιν,” Od. 8.505 “ἄκριτα πόλλ᾽ ἀγόρευον”. The latter passage shews that the word means indiscriminate, inconsistent, rather than countless; a sense which it would not be easy to derive from “κρίνω”. So “ἀκριτόμυθοι ὄνειροι,” Od. 19.560, hard to be discerned, “ἄχε᾽ ἄκριτα” (3.412, 24.91), “ἄκριτον πενθήμεναι” (Od. 18.174, Od. 19.120), of grief which is not brought to a determination, endless; “ἀκριτόφυλλος” 2.868, with confused foliage. λιγύς is a word of praise (1.248) used ironically.

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

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