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[494] 494-99. These famous lines are quoted by Lykurgos adv. Leocr. § 103. The text there found, as will be seen above, differs in three places from the vulgate; but the changes are less considerable on the whole than those of the contemporary orator Aischines. Still they shew the same tendency to variation which becomes observable about the middle of the fourth century C. β. ὕμεων as 7.159, Od. 13.7, Od. 20.351, Od. 22.219. It probably represents an older “ὕμων”, Aiol. “ὔμμων”, analogous to “ἄμμων” quoted as an Aiolic form by Apoll. de pron.

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