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[558] It is not easy to choose between ἑλκ́ηξουξιν and “ἑλκύσουσιν”. The form with “υ” is found as a variant in X 62, 336, Od. 11.580, and is implied by the derivative “ἑλκυστάζω. ἑλκέω” occurs only in P 395 without a variant, but from it comes “ἑλκηθμός”, with variant “ἑλκυθμός”. As the forms from “ἑλκύω” (and “ἑλκω”) alone are known in later Greek, and the sigmatic forms of the former always preserve the primitive “υ^”, it is better to accept the less familiar “ἑλκήσω” in H. The evidence of itacistic MSS. is worthless. For εἴ κε with fut. indic. see note on B 258.

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

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