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[748] τετυχηώς, though having very slight MS. support, is required by Homeric analogy in place of the vulg. “τετυχηκώς”, as the “κ” of the perf. hardly ever appears in the participle. The only other words in which it is found are “βεβρωκώς, δεδαηκότες, ἀδηκότες” (H.G. § 26. 4); while we have “κεκμηώς” by “κέκμηκα, τεθνηώς” by “τέθνηκα”, and a number of forms like “κεκοτηώς”, etc. (H.G. § 22. 8). For the meaning of the word cf. Od. 10.88 “ὃν πέρι πέτρη ἠλίβατος τετύχηκε”, is to be found, is there without man's interference. διαπρύξιον is elsewhere used only as an adv. of sound, piercingly. Here it seems to mean in a continuous line, without breaks, πεδίοιο being the ordinary local gen. The picture is evidently that of a natural barrier protecting a village or cultivated field behind it in time of flood.

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

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