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[753] 753-4 = 1.498-9. It seems clear that the poet who borrowed the lines regarded the summit of Olympos as a half-way stage between heaven and earth. If so, he departed from the oldest Homeric tradition, which made the earthly mountain Olympos, and not any aerial region, the dwelling of the gods; see note on 8.25. Ar. tried to put him right by explaining ἀκροτάτηι to mean ‘on a very high peak,’ not ‘on the topmost summit’; but this is surely a cruel kindness.

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

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