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[470] For ἠοῦς Zen. read “ἄας”, which was rejected by Ar. as not Homeric; it has, however, all the appearance of a genuine word of the old Achaian or proto-Epic dialect, representing “ἄϝας”: cf. Aeol. “ἄϝως” or “αὔως”. Hesych. says it is Boiotian for “ἐς αὔριον”. It can hardly have been invented by Zen., and it is with hesitation that I have not inserted it into the text, so as to get rid of the contracted “ἠοῦς” for “ἠόος”. But the second “α” has no exact analogy in Greek, though it appears to correspond to the Skt. us/-a, ‘early.’ Brandreth reads “ἠοόθεν καί”.

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

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