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[285] The simultaneous contraction and shortening of ταρβεῖ is intolerable, and ἐπειδάν is a late (Attic) form, found nowhere else in H. All edd. correct it: “ἐπειδή” Brandreth, “ἐπεί κεν” Bekker (Thiersch's “ἐπὴν δή” is as bad as “ἐπειδάν”) set one error right; while “ταρβέει, εἴ κε” Menrad (“ὁππότε” Agar) corrects both. πρῶτον, elsewhere always “πρῶτα” or “τὰ πρῶτα” after “ἐπεί”, in the sense ‘when once’; see on 1.235. For the whole situation compare Odysseus' description of Neoptolemos in the “λόχος” of the wooden horse, Od. 11.523 ff. Monro points out that in place of the pres. ἐσίζηται we ought to have the aor. “ἐσέζηται”, when he has once taken his seat. (“ἑζόμην, ἑζόμενος” are always aorist, from the reduplicated stem “σε-σδ”-; no present stem “ἑζ”- exists, “ἕζεαι” Od. 10.378 should be “ἕζεο”. See, however, Delbrück Gr. iv. p. 96 and Veitch “γρ. ϝερβς”, s. v. “καθέζομαι”.)

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

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