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[411] MSS. here (as in Pindar, etc.) vary between πορσανέουσα and “πορσυνέουσα”: in Od. 3.403, Od. 7.347 they give only the form with “-ύνω”, but Ar. read “πόρσαινε” in the last passage, and this is found also in Hymn. Cer. 156, and Ap. Rhod. For the phrase see M. and R.'s note on Od. 3.403, where the origin of it is deduced from the fact that ‘no one but the wife had free access to the husband's chamber, and so she actually “prepares” his bed for the night's rest.’ Of course it passed into the sense of ‘sharing’ the bed.

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

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