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[68] ἀσκελέως only here; but “ἀσκελὲς αἰεί” Od. 1.68 (in both cases of wrath), “μηκέτι” “. . πολὺν χρόνον ἀσκελὲς οὕτω κλαῖε” Od. 4.543. Here the sense must be unrelentingly or the like. But in Od. 10.463 “ἀσκελέες καὶ ἄθυμοι” it must = worn out or discouraged. The two are usually combined by reference to “σκέλλω”, dried up = (a) rigid like dried wood (cf. “σκληρός”), (b) withered. The “ἀ”- is explained as ‘intensive’; it may perhaps be sem of “ἅμα” etc., in the sense withered up (shrunk together); see on “ἄβρομοι,” 13.41.

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

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