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[383] Τηλεμάχῳ ἐικυῖα. So Bekk. for “εἰκυῖα”, thus making the word quadrisyllabic, as “ἐιδυῖα” Il.17. 5. The “δ᾽” commonly found before “ἐικυῖα” is omitted with good MSS. by Bekk. and Ameis, as the initial “ϝ” is very constant with this word (“ϝεϊκυῖα”). Another reason for omitting “δέ” is that, according to Homeric usage, the action which the mind has conceived, follows at once in the next line, either in asyndeton or with only a connecting particle, and least of all with an adversative particle as “δέ”. Cp. Od.4. 219, 795; 5. 382; 6. 112, 251; 16. 409; 23. 344; Il.23. 140 Il., 193.For the same reason the ordinary reading v. 394 “βῆ δ᾽ ἰέναι” is changed to “βῆ ῤ̔ ἰέναι”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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