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[50] ὀξυόεις: “ὀξύς”:: “φαιδιμόεις” (13.686): “φαίδιμος”: cf. also “μεσήεις”. According to Göbel (de epith. Hom. in “-εις” desinentibus) all forms in “-εις” are derived from substantives, and thus these two words must come from the neuter of the adj. used substantively: “ὀξυόεις” = furnished with an “ὀξύ”, i.e. sharp point; “φαιδιμόεις” = endued with “φαίδιμα”, i.e. gleaming armour. One old derivation was from “ὀξύη”, ‘made of beechwood,’ but the termination “-εις” never indicates material; and the spears of Homer are always made, not of beech, but of ash. But see Heracleid. 727 “τεύχη κόμιζε, χειρὶ δ᾽ ἔνθες ὀξύην”, and Schol. B ap. (Porphyrios) 6.201 “ὀξύη ποτᾶτο”.

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

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