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[774] Simoeis is mentioned again in 4.474-8, 20.53 by itself, and is distinguished from Skamandros in 6.4, 12.22, 21.307. Of these the two latter are almost certainly of late origin, while in the first what is probably the old reading omits all mention of Simoeis. There is therefore very strong reason for supposing that there was only one river named in the original legend; Simoeis may possibly, as Hercher thinks, be another name of the Scamander preserved by tradition. If the two are different, the only stream which can be identified with the Simoeis is apparently the pitiful brook of the Dumbrek-Su, which runs from E. to W. on the N. side of Hissarlik, and does not join the Mendere at all. E. Itentirely ceases to run in summer (Schliemann). On the “σχῆμα Ἀλκμανικόν”, by which the plural (or, as here, dual) verb goes with the first of two nominatives, instead of following both, Aristonikos remarks “τούτωι τῶι ἔθει πεπλεόνακε καὶ Ἀλκμάν: διὸ καὶ καλεῖται Ἀλκμανικόν, οὐχ ὅτι αὐτὸς πρῶτος ἐχρήσατο ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι τῶι τοιούτωι ἔθει πεπλεόνακεν”. He quotes other instances from 20.138, Od. 10.513, Od. 14.216. There is, however, no instance of it in the extant fragments of Alkman. See also Pindar P. iv. 179 with the commentators.

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

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