[204] ἵλαον σχεῖν θυμόν: Hes. Op.340“ὥς κέ τοι ἵλαον κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἔχωσιν”. The metre (with the last three feet spondaic) is not common, except in stereotyped endings, as in “θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις” (or the genitive of this formula) 11, 22, 29, 45, 55, 73, 403, and often in Homer. In 195, 202 “Ἰάμβη κέδν᾽ εἰδυῖα” the older epic form was of course “κέδνα ϝιδυῖα” (Od. 1.428 etc.). In 302 “ξανθὴ Δημήτηρ” is formulaic (=Il. 5.500); so 452 “κρῖ λευκόν” =Od. 4.604. With the present line cf. 417, 421, 474. The number of “spondaic” verses (i.e. with the last two feet spondaic) is much greater in this hymn than the proportion in the first book of the Iliad (e.g.) or in the hymn to Apollo (see Schürmann de h. in Cer. aetate etc. p. 55 f., Francke p. 23, and see generally Eberhard Metr. Beob. i. p. 10 f., La Roche Wiener Studien xx. p. 70 f.).
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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