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[357] ἔπρηξας, ‘you have accomplished your end, had your way’; cf. 1.562 “πρῆξαι δ᾽ ἔμπης οὔ τι δυνήσεαι”. The verb is only here used without an object. ἔπειτα, after all, but for καί we should rather have expected “δή” as Bentley conj. “καί” may, however, be explained as meaning ‘also’ in the sense of ‘once more,’ an allusion to Hera's earlier offences. βοῶπις as voc., 15.49. In both places good MSS. have “βοῶπι”, but it can hardly be supposed that the -“ι” was long by nature in the voc. as ‘Wernicke's law requires us to suppose that it was in the nom. (App. N. § 18).

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

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