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[454] Cf. 18.272. From that passage Menrad would read “ἐμοί” for ἐμεῦ — certainly a more natural constr., apart from the suspicious character of the contracted “ἐμεῦ. ἔπος”, the thing which I say. The identification of a real thing with the words which name it is a common phenomenon of primitive psychology, and is indeed the foundation of the whole system of omens from words.

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

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