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[71] （“ἡ διπλῆ”) “ὅτι νῦν μόνως οὐδετέρως εἴρηται Ἴλιον”, An.; “Ἀρίσταρχος” (“τινές, Τ”） ““Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσωσιν”” Did. The two statements are obviously contradictory, and no doubt we ought to read “Ἀριστοφάνης” in the latter. The difficulty of “Ἴλιον” as a neuter may however be evaded by reading “αἰπύν”, with slight MS. support, as Bentley proposed. For -“υς” as a fem. termination cf. “θῆλυς ἐέρση”, etc. (H. G. § 116. 4). Zen. accepted the neut. “Ἴλιον” as Homeric, cf. 16.92, 18.174. It was of course the regular form in post-Homeric times, and very probably stood here from the first. Ἀθηναίης, as inspirer of the device of the wooden horse, “τὸν Ἐπειὸς ἐποίησεν σὺν Ἀθήνηι,” Od. 8.493.

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

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