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[531] Καλυδῶνος (a sort of ‘causal’ gen.) after “ἀμύνεσθαι”, as 12.155, 179, 13.700. For the Aitolians see 2.638-44. The Kuretes are said to be a tribe who first inhabited Aitolia side by side with the Aitolians proper, but were afterwards expelled by them and inhabited Akarnania. They do not appear in the Catalogue. For the name cf. 19.193. It may, however, be distinct from the substantive “κουρῆτες”, and be related to the Italic Curetes, ‘spearmen,’ as Paley suggests. ἐραννῆς for “ἐρατεινῆς”, only here, 577, and Od. 7.18 in H.

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

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