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[112] ἐπὶ .. ὀρώρει, watched, as Od. 3.471, Od. 14.104 “ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἀνέρες ἐσθλοὶ ὄροντο” (-“ται”). The verb is to be conn. not with “ὀρ-” to rise, but with “οὖρος, ἐπίουρος, τιμάορος”, root “ὀρ” from “Ϝορ” (“<*>ράω”) which must have lost the “Ϝ” at a very early date — so early that the reduplicated perf. could be formed exactly as if the initial vowel were primitive. In fact the formation seems to shew that confusion with “ὄρ-νυμι” had already begun. Other traces of this use of the verb are to be found in Hesych. “ὅρει: φυλάσσει” and “ὠρεῖα: φυλακτήρια” (also in a Cretan inscr., see Schulze Q. E. p. 17 note). — Fick rejects 112-13 and 123-24; the thrusting in of Meriones and Idomeneus is at least needless, and looks like a special attempt to give prominence to Cretan heroes as in N.

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

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