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[613] “πρὸς τὴν διαφωνίαν τῶν νεωτέρων. φασὶ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴν ἀπολελιθῶσθαι, Ὅμηρος δὲ οὔ”, The An.two versions are reconciled by the story as given in Apollodoros and the scholia, according to which the slaughter took place in Thebes; the disconsolate Niobe returned to her home in Sipylos, and long afterwards prayed the gods to end her grief by turning her to stone. νῦν δέ που contrasts this later period with that of the catastrophe. But the later forms of the Niobe legend are so various that we can hardly trace them back to a definite source, or do more than note their differences from Homer. It is clear that there is no absolute inconsistency between the few fragments of the story which we have here.

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

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