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[507] Cf. 22.23 “θέηισι τιταινόμενος πεδίοιο”. On the form “θείω” cf. Schulze Q. E. 277, where it is referred to a root “θηϝ” = Skt. dhAv, a longer form of “θεϝ”, so that we should write “θή”（“ϝ”）“ηι” here. Others write “θεύω” for “θέϝω” in Homer, as a proto-Epic form, on the analogy of the Aeolic “πνεύω”, and the fut. “θεύσεσθαι”. But “ϝ” passes into “υ” only before a consonant. See van L. Ench. p. 414. The form recurs only in the infin. “θείειν”, for which we can always write “θεέμεν”.

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

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