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[30] ἄνεωι (so best MSS. and Schol. A, not “ἄνεω”) may always be a nom. plur. masc. except Od. 23.93, where it is used of one woman. Probably that passage induced Ar., perhaps rightly, to write “ἄνεω” and regard the word as an adv. like “ἄκην”. It is commonly taken to be for “ἀν̂α_ϝ-οι”, root “αϝ” of “αὔω, ἀϋτή”. But the ‘Attic declension’ is doubtful in H., and almost all forms can be easily removed from the text (van L. Ench. § 62). The word recurs also in 2.323, 3.84, 9.695, Od. 2.240, Od. 7.144, Od. 10.71. Brandreth reads “ἄναοι”. τετιηότες is explanatory, ‘silent for grief.’

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

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