[173] ἀριστεύουσιν: the alteration “ἀριστεύσουσιν” is needless; the poet claims that his songs are famous as soon as he has sung them (“μετόπισθεν”). His merits are recognized during his lifetime; cf. 70. ὑμέτερον also in 174 is clearly correct; he makes a bargain with the “Δηλιάδες”, just as the minstrel in Hom. Epigr. xiv. bargains with the potters.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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