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[64] Schol. A “ἀθετεῖται, ὅτι οὐχ ὑγιῶς ἐξενήνοχεν, αἳ πᾶσι κακὸν Τρώεσσι γένοντο ἑαυτῶι τε. ἔδει γὰρ αὐτῶι τε. ἡ δὲ οἷ ὀρθοτονεῖται νῦν διὰ τὴν ἀρχήν”. This scholion contains two different views: the first — down to “αὐτῶι τε” — is that of Aristonikos and Ar., that “οἱ” standing at the beginning of the line must be orthotone and therefore reflexive (see H. G. § 253); but that the reflexive sense is inadmissible here, because the subject of the clause is “νῆες”: hence the line must be spurious. The second opinion is probably that of Herodianos, that the “οἱ” is really anaphoric, not reflexive (= “αὐτῶι”, not “ἑαυτῶι”), but that it is orthotone because it stands at the beginning of the line (“διὰ τὴν ἀρχήν”). The latter view is taken by La Roche (H. U. 141). It is, however, possible to take “οἷ αὐτῶι” as reflexive = sibi ipsi, i.e. to Phereklos, who is the subject of the principal sentence though not of the relative clause. Schol. A says, “Ἑλλάνικός φησι χρησμὸν δοθῆναι τοῖς Τρωσὶν ἀπέχεσθαι μὲν ναυτιλίας, γεωργίαι δὲ προσέχειν, μὴ τῆι θαλάσσηι χρώμενοι ἀπολέσωσιν ἑαυτούς τε καὶ τὴν πόλιν”. Observe that θεῶν ἐκ goes closely with “θέσφατα”, cf. “θεῶν ἄπο μήδεα εἰδώς” Od. 6.12.

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

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