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[124] ἐπένοντο, were busy, cf. Od. 4.624 “περὶ δεῖπνον . . πένοντο”. See note on 23.159; the use of ἀμφί here in the local sense is little support to the connexion of “τάδ᾽ ἀμφί” there. ἐντύνοντο ἄριστον MSS., but the “α” of “ἄριστον” is always long, and there is no reason to suppose it ever began with a consonant. In Od. 16.2 nearly all MSS. read “ἐντύνοντ᾽”. No doubt the original form is “ἐντύνοντ᾽ ἀέριστον, ἀερι-” being conn. with “ἠέρι-ος” and “ἦρι”, early.

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

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