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[319] The readings of this line are an old crux. There is something to be said for “ἰλύσω”: the verb is not found elsewhere, but may be a ‘nonce-word’ coined with reference to “ἰλῦος” above, as though ‘I will slime him down with sand.’ εἰλύσω itself is not free from difficulty. It must come from “ϝελυ-, ϝελϝ”- = volv -; but the “εἰ”- seems to be due to error. For the Homeric forms “εἰλέωσιν, εἰλόμενοι, εἰλεῦντο” we should probably read “ϝέλλωσι, ϝελλόμενοι, ϝέλλοντο”, and for the perf. “εἰλυμένος”, etc., “ϝεϝλυμένος” from “ϝλυ_”- (cf. “σρυ_”- beside “σερυ^”-). “εἰλύω” will then be a later analogical formation from the perf., the only tense which recurs in H., or indeed in any but late authors with the exception of “εἰλύομαι” = crawl in Soph. Phil. 291Soph. Phil., 702(see van L. Ench. p. 493). “εἰλυ_φάζει” 20.492, “εἰλυ^φόων” 11.156 are further offshoots. χέραδος, shingle, neut. acc. The variant “χεράδος” as fem. gen. is due to the later constr. of “ἅλις” with gen., which is not found in H. There is no good evidence for the fem. now that “χεράδει” is read for “χεράδι” in Pind. P. vi. 13 on the express authority of Sch. T here. The neut. is further attested by Sch. U from Alkaios, and by Sch. Ap. Rhod.i. 1123 from Sappho (corruptly however, see Et. Mag. 808. 35). The variant “σχέραδος” rests on a quotation from Euphorion, “τύμβος ὑπὸ κνημοῖσι πολυσχεράδος Μυκόνοιο”.

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

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    • Homer, Iliad, 11.156
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    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 291
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