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[228] τό is lengthened by the first ictus as 22.307 “τό οἱ”. θεείωι, the disinfecting power of sulphurous fumes seems to have been in some degree known in heroic times; the volcanic origin of sulphur and the sulphurous smell of a lightning flash (14.415, 8.135, Od. 12.417) no doubt caused it to be regarded as a partly divine substance, and to this a popular etymology from “θεός” may, at all events in later times, have contributed; cf. Od. 22.481 “οἶσε θέειον, γρηΰ, κακῶν ἄκος,” Od. 23.50 “δῶμα θεειοῦται”, Eur. Hel. 866, Theokr. xxiv. 94 “καθαρῶι δὲ πυρώσατε δῶμα θεείωι”.

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

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