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[267] Autolykos was the maternal grandfather of Odysseus, see Od. 11.85, Od. 19.395; he was an arch-thief, “ἀνθρώπους ἐκέκαστο κλεπτοσύνηι θ᾽ ὅρκωι τε”. Hence in the later legends he was made the son of Hermes. ἀντιτορήσας, so Hymn. Merc. 178 “μέγαν δόμον ἀντιτορήσων”. The force of the preposition is not clear, and Döderlein (Gloss. § 672) is perhaps right in reading “ἀντετορήσας”, from the reduplicated aor. “ἀν-τετορῆσαι”. The real form will then have been forgotten at the time of the composition of the hymn; see note on 5.337.

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

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