[67] φηληταί: the correct spelling “φη-” is almost entirely the property of p; in 175, however, the family also reads “φι-”. This is not only the result of itacism, but of the authority of Herodian and Tryphon (in An. Ox. ii. 2712); in Hes. Op.375 the MSS. are divided, but elsewhere the iota prevails (Archil. fr. 46, Aesch. Cho.999, Soph. fr. 672, Rhes. 217, Callim. Hecale col. iv. 11 Gomperz). Photius has “φηλοῦν: ἀπατᾶν” in the series “φη”; and “ἐφήλωσεν” Aesch. Ag.497 with schol. We may accept the common derivation from the root of “σφάλλω”, fallo. The word is not Homeric (=“ληϊστήρ”, as in 14). In Rhes. l.c. Hermes is “φηλητῶν ἄναξ”, C. I. G. 2299 (Kaibel Ep.1108) “Ἑρμῆν τὸν κλέπτην τίς ὑφείλετο; θερμὸς ὁ κλέπτης”
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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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