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[235] ψεύδεσσι (“ψεῦδος”) Hermappias, “ψευδέσσι” (“ψευδής”) Ar.; on which a scholiast characteristically remarks “μᾶλλον πειστέον Ἀριστάρχωι ἢ τῶι Ἑρμαππίαι, εἰ καὶ δοκεῖ ἀληθεύειν”. It is true that “ἀρήγειν” and cognate forms are elsewhere only used by H. with personal datives, not with abstract words like “ψεῦδος”: but the idea of being ‘a helper for lies’ is not impossibly bold, and adjectives in “-ής”, from “-ες” stems, with the single exception of “ὑγιής” (8.524 only), are elsewhere in H. entirely restricted to compounds, such as “φιλοψευδής” (H. G. § 116. 5); the Homeric word for liar is “ψεύστης”.

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

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