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[182] Note the double hiatus. That at the end of the first foot is probably permissible (“ἐν δέ τ᾽ ἄῤ” Heyne); not so the second. P. Knight conj. “ἕρμαθ᾽ ἕηκεν”, Heyne “ἕρματ᾽ ἐνῆκεν”, Brandreth “ἕρματα θῆκεν.” ἕρματα, earrings. The use of these seems, like that of the “ἐνεταί”, to mark a departure from Mykenaean custom, as it is not clear that any of the ornaments found in the acropolis graves at Mykene were really for the ears. This is asserted by Schuchhardt of the ornaments which he figures on p. 193, but doubted by TsountasManatt (p. 179), on the ground that none of the Mykenaean monuments represent a woman with rings in her ears, with the single exception of a carved mirror handle, probably of foreign fabric.

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

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