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[831] ἀλλοπρόσαλλον, double-faced, one thing to one person, another to another. This treachery of Ares is again alluded to in 21.413 “οὕνεκ᾽ Ἀχαιοὺς κάλλιπες, αὐτὰρ Τρωσὶν ὑπερφιάλοισιν ἀμύνεις”, but no other trace of it occurs in Homer. τυκτόν is another “ἅπαξ λεγόμενον” in this sense; it apparently means ‘finished, wrought out,’ i.e. complete; cf. 23.741 “τετυγμένον” = well wrought: so “τυκτῆισι βόεσσιν” 12.105, and in the sense of ‘artificially made’ Od. 4.627, Od. 17.169, 206. Van Herwerden's “στυκτόν” (cf. Od. 10.113, Od. 11.502) is needless.

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

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