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[473] The optatives are potential, ‘according as H. might wish, and the work be drawing to completion.’ ἄνυτο has good authority; it is the regular opt. of “ἄνυμι”, of which the imperf. pass. “ἤνυτο” is found in Od. 5.243. The majority of MSS. give “ἄνοιτο”, but “ἄνεται,” 10.251, has “α_”, probably because “ἄνω” = “ἄνϝω” as “φθι?νω” = “φθίνϝω” (cf. “φθινύ-θω”). Besides, a rare form like “ἄνυτο” is not likely to have been wrongly invented; it might indeed be due to itacism, but that will be equally true of “ἄνοιτο”.

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

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