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[538] φάος, safety for the fugitives, as 6.6, 18.102, and elsewhere. “Ζηνόδοτος τοὺς στίχους ἠθέτηκε, γελοῖον ἡγούμενος διὰ πύλης φωτίζεσθαι τὴν πόλιν, τοῦ παντὸς τόπου ἐναιθρίου ὄντος”, It An.is not easy to believe that this silly reason was Zen.'s real ground for the athetesis; the criticism is more in the style of Zoïlos, for whose name Zen.'s may have been accidentally substituted.

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

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