[46] The variants were produced by the synizesis in “γαιέων. οἱ”, the conjecture of H, is usually read, and is necessary with “ἴκετο”. Fick reads “σοι” with “ἵκεο” 45, but “Λητώ” nominative (cf. “Λητοῖ” 62) is against this.
θέλοι: the optative is necessary. As “ἐθέλω” is the Homeric form, Franke and Gemoll write “υἱεῖ ἐθέλοι”, but the synizesis is very harsh, although it would have commended itself to Aristarchus, who wrote “Πηλείδἤθελ̓” (= “Πηλείδη, ἔθελ̓”) in Il. 1.277. However, in that passage and in Od. 15.317 “ θέλω” seems to be established, and should be retained here, as in h. Herm. 274, h. Aphr. 38, and possibly h. Dem. 160.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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