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[31] Ἆρες, Ἄρες: see Appendix D for the scansion of “Ἄρης”, and for the effect of the first arsis in lengthening a short syllable. The name is found with long “α_” chiefly in the last foot, but occasionally in the first (518, 594, 4.441, etc.), more rarely in the second (827, 829), and fourth, 18.264; in all cases in arsi. Bekker, following Ixion, wrote the second word “ἀρές”, taking it as the adj. of which the compar. and superl. “ἀρείων” and “ἄριστος” are familiar, but it cannot here be separated from the proper name. It is, however, remarkable that H. nowhere else repeats a word without change twice in immediate succession, common though the practice is in later poets; a long list of instances is given by Bekker H. B. 194. The most similar phrases in H. are “αἰνόθεν αἰνῶς, οἰόθεν οἶος”, and others which will be found in the exhaustive catalogue given by Bekker l.c. τειχεσιπλῆτα, coming near to walls, in hostile sense, like “ἔπληντ᾽ ἀλλήληισι” 4.449, etc.

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

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