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[262] προαλεῖ, evidently sloping; the origin of the word is unknown, and it does not recur before Ap. Rhod. φθάνει, the “α” is always long in H. (as it stands for “φθαν-ϝ”-); see notes on 9.506, 10.346, H. G. § 47. “φθανέει”, the reading of Zen. and others, was presumably taken as a collateral present stem, admitting the more familiar “α^” of Attic. τὸν ἄγοντα, the man who is leading it, a very rare use of the article in H., see note on 3.138. — The Duris who is quoted by Schol. U here (and perhaps on 259) is not elsewhere known as a Homeric critic.

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

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