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[615] See 11.756 for Buprasion, the Olenian rock, and Aleision as landmarks of Elis, and Frazer Paus. iii. p. 466 for Hyrmine. The four localities in 616-7 seem to be regarded as being at the four corners of the valley known as “κοίλη Ἦλις”. There is a slight confusion of construction in “ὅσσον ἐπὶ .. ἐντὸς ἐέργει”, or, in other words, the object of “ἐέργει” is not, as we should expect, and as we find in 24.544, “ὅσσον”, but “Ἤλιδα”, to be supplied from the previous line. Instead of “ὅσσον ἐπί”, the usual phrase is “ὅσον τ᾽ ἐπί” (3.12, 7.451, 15.358, etc.). The distance of “ἐπί” from the verb forbids explanation by tmesis, nor is “ἐπεέργειν” found elsewhere in H. There would seem to have been a fourfold tribal division of Elis. Ἐπειοί was the proper name for the inhabitants of Elis, 11.671, the name “Ἠλεῖοι” having probably come in after the Dorian and Aitolian invasion.

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

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