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[343] μέμβλετ᾽, generally explained as “μέμβλεται”, but it is much better to take it as = “μέμβλετο” (21.516, Od. 22.12), for “μέ-μλετο”, a reduplicated thematic aor. like “κέκλ-ετο”, etc. Theog. 61 read “μέμβλετ᾽ ἐνὶ” for “μέμβλεται ἐν”. There is no good evidence for such a form as “μέμβλεται” at all, until we come to Ap. Rhod. and Kallim. who invented a present “μέμβλομαι”, through a misunderstanding of the text.

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

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