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[626] αἵ, Zen. “οἵ”: but Od. 7.29 (“δόμος”) “ναίει” and the analogy of “ναιετάαν” as applied to places by a sort of personification (4.45, Od. 1.404, etc.) are sufficient to justify the reading of Ar. and MSS. So Soph. Aj. 597 “ὦ κλεινὰ Σαλαμίς, σὺ μέν που ναίεις ἁλίπλακτος κτλ.” The Echinean islands as a matter of fact lie opposite Akarnania, a considerable distance N. of Elis; but the Homeric geography of the W. coast of Greece is apparently based on imperfect hearsay, not on knowledge. Dulichion cannot be identified. It can hardly here be Leukadia (Sta. Maura).

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

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