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[273] ἐξάρχειν elsewhere in H. always takes the gen.: “γόοιο” 18.51, etc., “μολπῆς” 18.606 [Od. 4.19], and in mid. “κακῆς ἐξήρχετο βουλῆς” Od. 12.339 (cf. also 24.721). The acc. depends no doubt on a reminiscence of the familiar “βουλὰς βουλεύειν”: the meaning is ‘taking the lead in giving counsel,’ whereas with the gen. it means rather ‘beginning,’ ‘starting.’ So Hymn xxvi. 18 “ἐξάρχουσα χορούς”, and often in later Greek; see We Lex.may compare “ὁδὸν ἡγήσασθαι, ἀέθλους τοὺς ἐπειρήσαντ᾽ Ὀδυσῆος” Od. 8.23, and other exx. in Monro H. G. § 136.

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

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