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[462] This is one of the very few cases where εἴσομαι is used as fut. of “εἶμι”, I will go. The others are Od. 15.213, where the best MSS. (Ludwich's FG) have “ἕξεται”, and Od. 15.504 “ἐπιείσομαι” with variant “ἐπελεύσομαι”. All other cases can be written “Ϝίσομαι” and referred to “Ϝίεμαι”, hasten, aim at (van L.Ench. § 308). Here van L. reads “ἔρχομαι”. But we may have an early case of confusion of the two roots, which became closely similar when “Ϝ” was lost. Cf. note on 13.90.

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

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