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[824] μάχην in local sense, the battlefield. “πόλεμος” is never used in this way. ἀνά should be “ἄνα”, as it immediately follows its case; but Ar. refused to be consistent, on the ground that the word would thus be liable to confusion with the vocative of “ἄναξ” and the imperatival “ἄνα” = arise. In 4.230 he wrote “διά”, not “δία”, for a similar reason. The whole theory of accentuation is full of irregularities, which in many cases no doubt represented a genuine usage, but were a subject of helpless groping after principles among the Alexandrian grammarians. See H. G. § 180.

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

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