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[772] “κατ᾽ ἄκρης, τινὲς δὲ κρῆς μονοσυλλάβως” (i.e. “κατὰ κρῆς”), “ἐπεὶ καὶ κρῆθεν φησίν” (see on 16.548), Schol. The A. present phrase is only used of Troy (15.557, 24.728), except in Od. 5.313 “ἔλασεν” (“μιν”） “κῦμα κατ᾽ ἄκρης”. It seems to be a case of the not uncommon use of the fem. of the adj. as a subst., though in the present instance the fact that there is a fem. substantive in the immediate neighbourhood to which “ἄκρης” might refer makes the question a little doubtful. The phrase is fully established in Herod. and Attic Trag. and prose (see Lex.); here also the neighbourhood of a fem. subst. is common but not universal, e.g. Aisch. Cho. 691.For the sense cf. Virgil's “ruit alto a culmine Troia,” Aen. ii. 290.

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

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