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[791] ὠμογέροντα, cf. Od. 15.357 “ἐν ὠμῶι γήραϊ θῆκεν”, where the adj. must mean premature old age. Here we must rather understand in early old age. In either case the metaphor will be from unripe fruit, Virgil's “iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus,” Aen. vi. 304 . The scholia prefer to explain the metaphor “ἀπὸ τῶν κρεῶν τῶν ἑψηθέντων μέν, οὐ μὴν τελείως” (‘in underdone old age’?).

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

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