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[350] For καί the vulg. has “τε καί”. But the “ϝ” of “ϝιτέαι” is preserved in Od. 10.510 “μακραί τ᾽ αἴγειροι καὶ ἰτέαι ὠλεσίκαρποι”: cf. vit-ex <*>, our withy. According to Barker Webb, quoted by Schliemann Ilios 116-18, all the trees and plants here named are still to be found in the Trojan plain — so far at least as we are justified in identifying them.

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

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