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[539] χλούνην: a word of unknown meaning, explained by the ancients as entire (not castrated) or couching in grass (“χλοή — εὐνάζεσθαι”). Aristotle's quotation (see above) seems to be made up from a reminiscence of Od. 9.191 “οὐδὲ ἐώικει ἀνδρί γε σιτοφάγωι ἀλλὰ ῥίωι ὑλήεντι”. We have no right to say that it is a mistake of memory in quoting; the addition may well have been actually found in the corrupt popular copies; see note on 2.15.

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

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