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[4] δειδέχατο: generally referred to “δείκνυμαι”, v. 9.196 “δεικνύμενος” (H. G. §§ 23 (6), 24. 3), ‘pledging’; in that case it must be a secondary sense derived from the custom of pointing to the person whose health is to be drunk. But both form and meaning present difficulties, and the word may be independent. Cf. “δεικανόωντο” 15.86, “δεκανᾶται: ἀσπάζεται” Hesych., and the Odyssean “δειδίσκομαι”, which may point to a root “δϝικ” (van L. Ench. p. 345, Schulze Q. E. p. 155).

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

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