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[359] So 23.432 “δίσκου οὖρα . . ὅν τ᾽ αἰζηὸς ἀφῆκεν ἀνὴρ πειρώμενος ἥβης”. The phrase evidently expresses the longest possible cast. ἧισι if right must be explained as a subj. with the long stem + termination, cf. “δῶσι” 1.129, “φθῆισι” 23.805, not as contracted from “ἥηισι”, the Homeric form (hardly “ἕηισι”, in spite of “ἀφέηι” 16.590). We can of course read “ἥηι” (Monro). But it is a question if the whole line is not interpolated in order to supply a verb to “ἐρωή” (cf. on 7.353, 9.44, 24.45, etc.; the verb being taken from the familiar “πολέμου δ᾽ οὐ γίνετ᾽ ἐρωή”), and filled up with a reminiscence of 23.432. It certainly is not needed. (See Menrad, p. 158.)

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

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