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[447] ἐνίψει, will declare his intentions to the gods in order to ask their approbation. The word must be meant for the fut. of “ἐνέπω”, not of “ἐνίπτειν” (more usually “ἐνίσσειν”) to blame; so also Od. 2.137, Od. 11.148. Pindar in fact uses “ἐνίπτειν” in the sense of “ἐνέπειν”. There seems to be a confusion of the two words, as “ἐνίψω” cannot regularly come from “ἐνέπειν”. Ap. Rhod. uses “ἐνίψω” freely but not “ἐνίπτω”: but “ἐνέψω”, as some MSS. read in ii. 1165, may have been a variant here also.

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

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