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[392] ἐπὶ κάρ, an obscure phrase; the ancients doubted if it should be written in one word or two, and explained headlong (as from “ἐπὶ κάρα”) or sideways. The adj. “ἐπικάρσιαι” (Od. 9.70), of ships in a storm, is equally doubtful. The sense headlong certainly suits this place best; but the adj. (like “ἐγκάρσιος”) always means athwart in later Greek. The derivation of this sense is obscure. μινύθει, intrans., as 17.738, Od. 4.374. ἔργα, chiefly or solely tillage in this connexion. Cf. 2.751, 5.92, 12.283, 19.131, Od. 2.22, Od. 14.344 “Ἰθάκης ἔργα” = the fields of Ithaka.

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

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