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[485] ἄρεω, i.e. “ἄρἠ” (“ο”), gen. of “ἄρης”, harm, wrongly transliterated from APEO: see note on 12.334. The variant “ἀρῆς” naturally arises from the acc. “ἄρην”, confused with “ἀρήν” = prayer, curse. The explanation of Ar., that “ἄρεω” is from “ἄρεως” a by-form of “ἄρης”, does not hold here, for when a man is killed in battle it cannot be said that a survivor “ἄρην ἀμύνει”, though he may keep disaster from the family by saving them the disgrace of a kinsman slain and no blood-price exacted. ἀλκτ̂ηρα from “ἀλκ”- (“ἀλ - αλκ - εῖν” etc.). Schulze (K. Z. xxix.) makes “Ϝαλκτήρ” = ultor for volctor; but this is disproved by Od. 14.531 “κυνῶν ἀλκτῆρα καὶ ἀνδρῶν”. Cf. also “ἀρὴν” (“ἄρην”) “ἑτάροισιν ἀμύνειν” 12.334, etc. λιπέσθαι, be left behind; this aor. is always used in passive sense.

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

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