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[880] For ἀνίης the vulg. gives “ἀνίεις”, which is wrong, as the accent would only suit the imperf.; but a thematic “ἀνιεῖς” has the support of the 3rd person, 2.752 “προϊεῖ,” 10.121 “μεθιεῖ” (cf. “τιθεῖ” 13.732, Od. 1.192, “διδοῖς, διδοῖ”). These are clearly due to invasion of the thematic forms by analogy; an invasion which in these particular verbs was finally repulsed, though it overwhelmed many others. As the MSS. are of no authority in a matter such as this, it is impossible now to say whether the 2nd person succumbed like the 3rd, the metre here giving no help. See H. G. § 18. But the thematic forms are so rare that they should not be multiplied without necessity. αὐτός, explained by Schol. B “μόνος”, i.e. without the intervention of a mother; and so Hes. Theog. 924 “αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἐκ κεφαλῆς γλαυκώπιδα γείνατ᾽ Ἀθήνην”. The legend of the birth of Athene from the head of Zeus is found also in Hymn. Ap. 314, 323, but not elsewhere in H., unless it be in the obscure title “τριτογένεια” (see on 4.515); and the word here need mean no more than ‘thou thyself’ didst beget (emphatically); “σὺ τέκες” above (875) is also ambiguous. ἀΐδηλον, destructive, as “πῦρ” 2.455. (Welcker explains ‘secretly born,’ as without a mother. But see 897.)

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

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