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[287] For ὄγδοον (- -) Dindorf reads “ὀγδόατον”, with synizesis.

The place of “μοι” after “ὄγδοον” (as has been pointed out by Mr. T. L. Agar in the Journ. of Phil. xxvi. 114) is accounted for by the emphasis on the numeral: so in Il.9. 474ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη μοι ἐπήλυθε νὺξ ἐρεβεννή”, and the other instances which he quotes. The conjecture “ὀγδόατον”, with the synizesis “δὴ ὀ-”, may be supported by Od.12. 399(=15. 477) “ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ ἕβδομον ἦμαρ κτλ.” It is difficult, however, to see why “ὀγδόατον” should have been corrupted into the unmetrical “ὄγδοον”, and it still seems possible (as suggested in H. G. § 365) that we have here a trace of an older form “ὄγδωος”, Indog. oktōw-o (Brugmann, Gr. II. 481), Lat. octāvus.

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