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[663] For the name Πολύϊδος cf. 5.148, where it again occurs in connexion with soothsaying. Pherekydes ap. Schol. T here makes him a member of the prophetic race of Melampus (his great-great-grandson). The long “ι” is explained by Schulze (Q. E. p. 118) after Wackernagel as from “πολυϝιδϝος”. The variant “Πολύειδος”, though found in a few MSS. and preferred by many recent scholars, is not supported by inscriptions and does not explain the Attic form in -“ι^δος” (e.g. in the play of Sophokles “Πολύϊδος ἢ Μάντεις”: see frag. 462 “ὁρῶ πρὸ χειρῶν Πολυΐδου τοῦ μάντεως”).

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

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