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[369] ρ́όον ἔχραε κ́ηδειν, laid hands on my stream to vex it; so Od. 21.69 “τόδε δῶμα ἐχράετ᾽ ἐσθιέμεν”. The dat. is also found, “στυγερὸς δέ οἰ ἔχραε δαίμων,” Od. 5.396, cf. 17.352. “ἔχραε” is an aor. from root “χραυ”, which with its cognates “χρ-αίνω, χρ-ίω” (Brugm. Gr. ii. p. 990) means touch, stroke, graze, and has thence developed into lay hands on in a hostile sense. The regular sigmatic aor. is “χραύσ-ηι” (5.138); there is little ground for the proposed separation of the two words alluded to in the note there. The two co-existent aorists are exactly parallel to “λόε” — “λοῦσε. ἐξ ἄλλων” = “ἔξοχον ἄλλων”.

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

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