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[316] ἐλελιξάμενος (the original “ἑλιξάμενος” has survived in “παπ. β”, though perhaps only by a blunder; see 1.530), ‘coiling himself up for the spring.’ ἀμφιαχυῖαν: an anomalous form. We have a root “ϝαχ”, strong form “ϝηχ” in “ϝηχή”, pres. stem “ἰάχω” = “ϝιϝάχω”. From this we may perhaps have a perf. part. without redupl. “ϝαχυῖα”, like “ἰδυῖα” (H. G. § 23. 5). Schulze has ingeniously conj. an aor. (“ἔ”）“ϝαχον” to explain the numerous cases where “ϝ” is neglected, reading “μέγα ϝάχον, ἐπὶ δὲ ϝάχον, ἐπίϝαχον” for “μέγ᾽ ἴαχον κτλ.” Of this aor. “ἀμφι”（“ϝ”）“αχοῦσαν”, read by Ambr., would be the regular participle. The scholion of Herodianos on the accent of πτερύγος is characteristic: “παροξυτόνως. καὶ ὁ μὲν κανὼν θέλει προπαροξυτόνως, ὡς δοίδυκος. ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ οὕτως δοκεῖ τονίζειν τῶι Ἀριστάρχωι, πειθόμεθα αὐτῶι ὡς πάνυ ἀρίστωι γραμματικῶι”.

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

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