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[269] It is curious that so good a MS. as P, with its family, should expressly give the variants “ὀμφαλόεντ᾽” and “ἀρηρότα”, with the scholion “καθαρὸς ἐν τέλει δάκτυλος”. There were however ancient grammarians who held that a dactyl could stand in the sixth place. Schol. T on “οὓς τέκετο Ῥέα,” 15.187, says “οἱ δέ φασι δεῖν συστέλλειν” (‘make the “α” short’), “ἵνα δάκτυλος γίνηται, ὡς τὸ “καὶ πὺξ ἀγαθὸν Πολυδευκέα”” (3.237), ““ἀνδρόμεα κρέα”” (Od. 9.347), ““ἕσσατο τεύχεα”” (7.207). “ζυγός” is of course found, though not commonly, in later Greek; it is unknown to H. Zen. omitted the line, and Heyne thinks it interpolated, but without obvious grounds.

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

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