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[241] ἑπισχοίης is an entirely anomalous form in H., nor are the variants “ἐπίσχοιας, ἐπίσχοιες” any better (H. G. § 83). “ἐπισχείης” might be defended as a non-thematic form from the aor. stem “σχε”-, cf. imper. “σχές” (which, however, is itself not Homeric). “ἐπίσχοιες” seems to have been the old vulgate, and is explained by the scholiasts as a mistake of the “μεταχαρακτηρίσαντες” for “ἐπισχοίης”. They remark that a comfortable chair is an appropriate gift to the god of sleep. — The added lines given by Schol. T are evidently meant to account for the fact that in 354 Hypnos takes it upon him to go and tell Poseidon. But if they are accepted, the words of Hera in 15.41 ff. become rank perjury.

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

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