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[493] 493 was rejected by Heyne, and is painfully weak. The position of κακοῖς is unexampled, and “κακῶς” is hardly better. The “ἄναξ” of Sch. T is not put forward as more than a conjecture to meet the difficulty. (Agar would adopt it however, reading “ἄναξ̓”（“ι”) as dat. pl., for princes it is not seemly: J. P. xxv. 319. This is perhaps possible, though we have “ἀνάκτεσι,” Od. 15.557.) The metre halts too, the first foot being a trochee instead of a spondee; the arguments in favour of such lengthening being permissible here are wholly insufficient (App. D, C 2). There are no traces of “ϝ” in “Ἰδομενεύς”: Knös (Dig. 111) says ‘loci Homerici consonam initialem obstinatissime respuunt,’ and there can of course be no doubt that the last syll. of “Αἶαν” is short. The simplest remedy would be to read “Αἶάν τ᾽”, with Barnes; “Αἴας Ἰδομενεύς τε” Wackernagel.

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

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