Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 21 (Φ）, line 37

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[37] ἐρινεὸν . . ὄρπηκας, a ‘wholeand-part’ figure, rarely found except of persons. But cf. 1.236. Agar conj. “ἐρινεοῦ”, for it is evident that Lykaon can only have been cutting the branches into shape: he can hardly have been cutting them off the tree by night, as the acc. would imply (J. P. XXV. 308). The young branches are chosen for their flexibility to make the curved “ἄντυγες”. Theokritos ignorantly imitates the passage (XXV. 247) when he makes such shoots used for the felloes of wheels.

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

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