[164] Παῦρα and αἴσυλα are undoubtedly the best readings, the latter word being supported by the Homeric passage quoted above, where schol. B gives the correct sense “αἴσυλα τὰς παρὰ τὸ καθῆκον λεγομένας ἀπειλάς”: “like a child who knows few words of blame.” M's reading “πολλὰ . . . ἄρμενα” would imply much the same thing conversely, but the negative “παῦρα” is more effective, and to protest against a child possessing “fit thoughts” is perhaps too cynical. The point is that Hermes can blame as well as be blamed.
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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