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[34] ναῖε δέ: Zen. “ὃς ναῖε”, acc. to An., who accuses the reading of ‘cacophony.’ On 13.172 the same difference is noted, and the charge becomes one of false quantity; but the text of the schol. gives “νάε”. Now “νάω” from root nas, to dwell, would be just as possible by the side of “ναίω”, as is “νάω” to flow (for “σνάϝ-ω”) by the side of “ναίω,” Od. 9.222, in the same sense; cf. also “δέρω” by “δείρω”. It is therefore possible that Zen. may have found an old reading “ὃς ναῖε”, representing an original “ὃς νάε”, and defended it on the analogy of “ἔμπαιος, οἷος” (uu), etc.

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

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