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[255] πόλλ᾽ ἐτεά τε καὶ οὐκί, though acc. to Did. only the reading of inferior MSS., is obviously better than Ar.'s “πολλά τ᾽ ἐόντα καὶ οὐκί” with its clumsy order of words, which is only slightly improved if we read “τὰ δ᾽” for “καί”, as one of the confused scholia seems to imply. Besides, “ἐόντα” = true things is a phrase not to be paralleled in H. For the lengthening of the “α” of ἐτεά see on 18.4. The word recurs in H. only as an adv. “ἐτεόν. καὶ τά”, the false as well as the true.

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

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