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[433] For the position of the Horai as servants of the gods cf. 393 above. It is clear that when Poseidon performs a similar office for Zeus in 440 we cannot conclude that it is in virtue of his functions in later Greek mythology as “ἵππιος”, for the Horai never possessed such an attribute, and as applied to Poseidon it seems to be post-Homeric, due probably to the fusion with him of a ‘Pelasgian’ horse-god. But Poseidon stands to his elder brother in the honourable position of “θεράπων” or squire for the moment; though it is strange that he should be upon Olympos without warning, see 7.445.

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

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