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[356] ἐκέκλιτο can hardly be right, for in the first place the idea of a spear leaning upon mist is quite un-Homeric; and in the second it can only apply to ἵππω by a violent zeugma, for which support can hardly he found in 3.327 “ἵπποι ἀερσίποδες καὶ ποικίλα τεύχε᾽ ἔκειτο” (see note). Various emendations have been proposed, from Bentley's “ἠέρι δ᾽ ἅρμ᾽ ἐκαλύπτετο” on; but none are satisfactory. Some of the schol. derive the word from “κλείω”, was enclosed.

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

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