[204] For the pride of Leto, with whom Zeus is here associated, in her children, cf. Od. 6.106, h. Apoll. 12, 126. θυμὸν μέγαν; Baumeister compares h. Dem. 37 “μέγαν νόον”, adding quippe deae. But of course such expressions are not confined to the gods; cf. Il. 9.496 “ ἀλλ̓, Ἀχιλεῦ, δάμασον θυμὸν μέγαν”, and the common “μεγαλήτορα θυμόν”. For the construction cf. h. Pan 45 “πάντες δ᾽ ἄρα θυμὸν ἐτέρφθεν”.
εἰσορόωντες governs “υἶα”; there is no difficulty in the intervention of the explanatory subjects “Λητώ” and “Ζεύς”. Peppmüller's transposition of 205 and 206 is bad; Gemoll's punctuation “ἐπιτέρπονται, θυμὸν μέγαν εἰσορόωντες” (“υἶα” in apposition to “θυμόν”) is very clumsy. 208-213. The passage is very obscure, but it needs explanation rather than “higher criticism.” Gemoll rightly points out that it is certainly not a separate hymn, and that the theory of interpolation is simply a confession of inability to understand.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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