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[391] πορφυρέην, the epithet is only here applied to the “ἅλς” or shallow water of the coast; when used of water it elsewhere belongs only to “κῦμα”. Virgil imitates the line, Georg. iv. 373 “In mare purpureum violentior effluit amnis.” For the personification in στενάχουσι cf. 23.230 “Θρηΐκιον κατὰ πόντον, ὁ δ᾽ ἔστενεν οἴδματι θύων” .

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

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