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[648] 648-49. Another very obscure couplet. The form μέμνησαι for “μέμνηαι” (21.442) is Attic, and does not recur in H.; the -“ς”- fell out between vowels according to the rule, and was only restored later on the analogy of the consonantal stems (“γέγραψαι”, etc. So G. Meyer, Gr. § 466). ἀεί with “α^”, instead of “αἰεί” or “αἰέν”, recurs only in 12.211, Od. 15.379, and the “ϝ” of “ϝέϝοικε” is also neglected — all signs of lateness. As for the explanation, ἐνηέος must go with “μευ”, ‘you remember me (as being) kindly disposed (towards yourself).’ This is not like H., but is preferable to the alternative which makes “ἐνηέος” agree with “τιμῆς”. The gen. τιμ̂ης is also obscure, but is probably to be explained as a gen. of price, belonging strictly to the rel. clause, οὐδέ σε λ́ηθω being only a parenthetical repetition of μέμνησαι — thou art mindful of me, at the estimation at which it is right that I should be esteemed being equivalent to thou art mindful of the estimation at which, etc. This is obviously unsatisfactory, but the alternatives are equally so. Düntzer's “τιμῆς θ᾽”, ‘you remember me, and the value at which,’ etc. is not like Homer. Nauck only removes the difficulty one step by omitting 649; we are then equally bound to ask what the interpolator meant by his words and why he added them, unless we assume that he was a mere mischief-maker. Brandreth reads “ὡς αἰεί”, so that “ἐνηέος” must agree with “τιμῆς”, which does not suit the sense of the adj. Nikanor however is inclined to join “ἐνηέος τιμῆς, “εἰ καὶ οὐχ Ὁμηρικὸν τὸ ὑπερβατόν”.”

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

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