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[35] The reading λευκοἶ for “λευκοί”, which is attested, though not approved, by the scholia, is highly probable, though not absolutely necessary, as the pause at the end of the first foot may excuse the lengthening; cf. 1.39, 2.209, 5.685, and a few more cases. Though the MSS. of H. do not give us any instances of the elision of the gen. in “-οιο”, yet it is attested for Pindar, Simonides, Archilochos, and Lasos, and is found apparently in an Attic inscr. of the 6th cent. (see the collection of instances in Menrad Contr. 98, Platt C. R. ii. p. 99, van L. Ench. p. 201), and is made probable for H. by the number of places where “-ου” remains long before a vowel (see, however, H. G. § 376 (1)). The elision of “ἐμεῖ”（“ο”), “σει”（“ο”), is abundantly attested in 23.789, 6.454. There is therefore no reason to doubt that the MSS. have here unconsciously preserved a relic of the old form. ἔην, there was one. But the omission of “εἷς” is strange, as nothing is left for the gen. κυάνοιο to depend upon. Nauck conj. “ἕεις”, a false form, however (see 5.603).

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

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