[72] ἀκηρασίους: Curtius' derivation from “κείρω” suits this passage, and many examples of the similar form “ἀκήρατος”: Choerilus fr. 1 “ὅτ᾽ ἀκήρατος ἦν ἔτι λείμων”, Ibycus fr. 1 “κᾶπος ἀκήρατος”, Eur. Hipp.73“ἐξ ἀκηράτου λειμῶνος”. But in Il. 15.498 “, ρ 532 κτήματ᾽ ἀκήρατα”, the form “ἀκήρατος” seems to mean “intact,” like “ἀκήριος”, from “κήρ”. In Od. 9.205 “ ἀκηράσιος” is applied to “οἶνος”, and in Il. 24.303 “ ἀκήρατος” to “ὔδωρ”. This suggests a connexion with “κεράννυμι”, but the use in these two passages may be due to false etymology, aided by “ἄκρητος”. If, as seems probable, “ἀκηράσιος” and “ἀκήρατος” properly mean “unharmed,” a similar false etymology (“κείρω”) would readily adapt the words to “λειμών” etc.
73, 74. The construction, with a double genitive, is grammatically rather complicated, but the sense is clear; cf. 82.This text is part of:
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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