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[493] βοτάνης, the place of feeding. In Od. 10.411 “ἐπὴν βοτάνης κορέσωνται” , it is used either in the abstract sense feeding or more probably = food. Hence Ar. considered it necessary to take ἐκ here in a temporal sense, after feeding. But this use of the preposition, though common in Attic, is very rare in H. (see however 5.865, 16.365, 19.290, Od. 23.224). The analogy of Od. 10.159 “κατήϊεν ἐκ νομοῦ ὕλης πιόμενος” is really decisive in favour of the local sense of “βοτάνης” here; compare note on 11.807. For the last half of the line cf. 8.559 “γέγηθε δέ τε φρένα ποιμήν”.

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

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