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[413] Either ἥδε or “ἤδη” must be the right reading. The vulg. “ἠώς” is quite out of place when used late in the evening (351). It may easily have slipped in from a reminiscence of 21.80 “ἠὼς δέ μοί ἐστιν ἥδε δυωδεκάτη”, or 1.493 “ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δή ῥ᾽ ἐκ τοῖο δυωδεκάτη γένετ᾽ ἠώς”. The use of the fem. ordinal adj. as a subst. in this way is as familiar in H. as in later Greek; see e.g. 1.425 “δωδεκάτηι,” Od. 2.374 “πρίν γ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἑνδεκάτη τε δυωδεκάτη τε γένηται”.

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

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