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[229] For ἔπι MSS. have “ἐπί”, taking ἄκρον apparently as an adverb, for which there is no analogy. It must be a substantive as Od. 11.597, 23.339; but even so the use is doubtful, as neither of these passages supports the use of the gen. Hence Ahrens' reading, “ἄκρον ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖνα”, is very probable; the change will have been made to avoid the hiatus. This is of course the regular Greek use of “ἄκρος”. The gen. was evidently read by Ap. Rhod.i. 182 “κεῖνος ἀνὴρ καὶ πόντου ἐπὶ γλαυκοῖο θέεσκεν οἴδματος κτλ” . Virgil's application of the thought to Camilla hardly needs quotation ( Aen. vii. 808-11). For ῥηγμῖνος = surf without the usual connotation of shore cf. Od. 12.214 “κώπηισιν ἁλὸς ῥηγμῖνα βαθεῖαν τύπτετε”.

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

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