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[10] τεταρπώμεσθα γόοιο, one of the phrases peculiar to “Ψ” (also 98), “Ω” (513), and the Od. (six times). The same is the case with the similar “ἵμερος γόοιο”, and “γόου ἐξ ἔρον εἵην” 24.227. The word no doubt expresses satiety (cf. “κορεσσάμεθα κλαίοντε” 22.427), but certainly has not lost the sense of satisfaction. (In Od. 15.400 “μετὰ γάρ τε καὶ ἄλγεσι τέρπεται ἀνήρ” the idea is different, as the reference is to past sorrow — “haec clim meminisse iuvabit.”) Schol. B quotes from Aischylos “οἵ τοι στεναγμοὶ τῶν πόνων ἰάματα”. So “est quaedam flere voluptas,” Ovid Trist. iv. 3. 37.

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

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