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[213] ἐκφθέγξατο, though preserved in only one family of MSS., is obviously right. For the constr. compare 23.477 “κεφαλῆς ἐκδέρκεται ὄσσε”. No adequate parallel can be adduced for “ἐφθέγξατο δίνης” in the sense spoke from the eddy; none of those given in H. G. § 152, is quite like this. Hence most edd. have followed Isaac Casaubon in reading the compound. Ar. seems to have omitted δ᾽ and presumably put a colon at the end of 212, thus producing a harsh asyndeton, and unduly separating “προσέφη” from the speech which it introduces. Heyne suspects the line, not without reason, ‘quod otiosus est, et quod in fine ingrata repetitio est: “βαθυδίνης” et “δίνης”.’

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

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