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[251] παίσατε, from “παίζω”, as Od.6. 106; 23.147. There was a v. l. “παίξατε”, see crit. note, and Schol. V. interprets “παίσατε” by “πλήξατε”, as if referring it to “παίω”. This dance of the Phaeacians was figured on the throne of the Amyclaean Apollo by Bathycles of Magnesia, whose date is placed by Thiersch in Ol.29, and by Sillig, with greater probability, in Ol.40.Compare “καὶ Φαιάκων χορός ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῷ θρόνῳ καὶ ᾁδων ὁ Δημόδοκος” Pausan. 3. 18. 7. Even the later of the two dates assigned would be evidence that the Homeric poems were popularly known before the Peisistratidean recension, and that the Odyssey then contained the episode of the Phaeacians.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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