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[310] γαίης: the gen. is compared in H. G. § 151 a with “τοίχου τοῦ ἑτέροιο” 9.219, and with the gen. after verbs of taking hold of. But it must be admitted that the analogy is not very satisfactory, and the use is strange. The line recurs in 11.356, and is there generally condemned as an interpolation; it may fairly be suspected here too. The last part looks like an adaptation of the familiar “τὸν δὲ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν ἐρεβεννὴ νὺξ ἐκάλυψεν”. For δέ Brandreth and others conj. “δέ ϝ᾽”, where “ϝ” would naturally represent “ϝε”: but “δέ οἱ” in Eust. looks as though some MSS. in his time still retained a tradition of “ϝοι”, which is of course possible. Cf. the “οἱ” of Ambr. in l. 4.

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

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