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[480] Ὑπερίων is a common name of the sun in Od., but recurs only in 19.398 in It Il. is patronymic in form, but there is no legend to explain this; it may be simply ‘son of high heaven,’ cf. “οὐρανίωνες”, and see H. G. p. 112, note. H. knows nothing of the legend (in Hes. and Hymn. xxxi.) which makes Helios son of Hyperion; this is evidently only a deduction from the form “Ὑπεριονίδης” (Od. 12.176), a patronymic with double termination (see on 2.566). The line of Xenophanes, “ἠέλιός θ᾽ ὑπεριέμενος γαῖάν τ᾽ ἐπιθάλπων”, is an early etymology.

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

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