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[562] They called her (sc. Kleopatra) Alkyone because her mother (Marpessa) herself wept with the plaintive voice of the Halcyon (kingfisher: the female when separated from the male is said to utter continually a mournful cry. This has no foundation in fact; see Thompson Gloss. s.v.). The legend of Alkyone and Keyx, which sprang from the same source, is of course not referred to here. For the vulg. “αὐτῆς” I have taken αὐτή from one MS., she herself (namely) the mother. The pronoun is used to contrast the mother with the daughter, who might naturally be supposed to be the person described by her name. For children named from their parents' circumstances see note on 6.403. Either the gen. or dat. involves the weakest anaphoric use of the pronoun, which is especially bad in this emphatic place and could only be excused by the lateness of the whole passage

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

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