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[818] ἀρ́ησηι, the contracted form of the 2nd sing. mid. is doubtful in H.; in the other passages where it occurs we can almost always write -“ἐ” for -“εαι” (1.160, 2.365, 3.138, and often), or -“ἠ” for -“ηαι” in pres. subj. (see on 2.232-33). The only other cases in the Iliad which do not admit this are 2.367 (“γνώσεαι εἰ”, Barnes), 9.102, 24.434; in Od. there are seven or eight (“ἔλπηι” Od. 6.297, “ἕλκηι” Od. 18.10, being for -“ηαι”). Whether it be fut. indic. or aor. subj. “ἀρήσηι” will stand for “ἀρήσεαι”, but the analogy of 21.111 shews that it is the aor. subj. (cf. also 4.164, 6.448, 8.373). Fick conj. “ἀρήσηις”, as we have “ἀρήμεναι”, Od. 22.322, and the rareness of the act. may have caused the corruption.

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

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