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[27] πουλὺν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρήν recurs Od. 4.709. For πουλύν as fem. see 5.776, and for ὑγρήν as subst. 14.308, 24.341. Schulze (Q. E. 445 ff.) points out that the simple “πουλύς” occurs only nine times in H., and in five of these is feminine. He concludes that where it is masc. we should read a form of “πολλός”, and suggests that the original fem. form is “ποῦλαν” from *“πόλϝα”, cf. “πρέσβ”（“ϝ”）“α” from “πρέσβυς”. The form “πουλύς” was accepted from the analogy of the compounds “Πουλυδάμας, πουλυβότειρα”, where it is due to metrical necessity alone.

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

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