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[572] Cf. 11.621 for the practice of washing off sweat in sea-water. There was probably in Homeric times, as in the present day, a prevalent idea that ‘sea-water never gives a cold,’ however hot one goes in; but that it is necessary to be cool before taking a fresh-water bath. Hence the proper precaution is taken before the luxury of the “ἀσάμινθος”. The lengthening of the “ε” of ἀπενίζοντο is due either to the antispastic measure of the word (see App. D), or possibly to the analogy of other words where initial “ν” represents an older sn (“νυός, νιφάς”, etc.), which is not the case here.

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

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