[477] δέγμενος: see on h. Dem. 29. κῦδος ὄπαζε: as promised by Apollo 461.
478, 479. As these lines stand in the MSS. (with “ἐπισταμένως”) there is no copula. Of Barnes' two suggestions, “ἐπισταμένην” is bad, and should not have been so generally accepted; “ἐπιστάμενος”, on the other hand, can be explained as due to a scribe who thought of correcting the metre. For the lengthening of the short syllable in Homer see H. G. § 375. In late epic there are examples in the fifth foot (as here) in Apoll. Arg. 1.725 “ἠέλιον ἀνίοντα”, 1361 “εὐρεῖαν ἐσιδέσθαι”. Ludwich's transposition of “εὐμόλπει” and “εὔκηλος” (480, where he reads “φέρων”) is ingenious, but unmotived.This text is part of:
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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