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[86] περ must go with ἦμος. For δεῖπνον Zen. read “δόρπον”, which, as Ar. pointed out, meant the meal when the day's work was over, whereas “δεῖπνον” is the principal meal, commonly taken before a battle, 2.381, 8.53 (see note), 19.171. So in Od. 9.311 the Kyklops takes his “δεῖπνον” before driving the sheep to pasture. It may thus indicate a time considerably before noon; a woodman who only took two full meals a day would hardly wait so long before being tired. ἀέξετο in 84 indicates the early morning, while the day rapidly and sensibly grows hotter. Hence we may suppose the hour indicated to be about nine or ten. We reach noon only in 16.777.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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