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[592] 592-3 look like an interpolation. For Ἐνυώ see 333, the only other passage where she is named. κυδοιμός seems to be another personification, as in 18.535, Scut. Her. 156, Ar. Pax 255; compare “ἀλκή” and “ἰωκή” 5.740, and perhaps “φύζα” 9.2. ἔχουσα then means ‘having as her attendant.’ But compare 11.4 “Ἔριδα .. πολέμοιο τέρας μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαν”: it is quite possible that “κυδοιμός” may be an attribute of Enyo, which she is regarded as carrying in her hand. The epithet ἀναιδής, which is some times applied to inanimate objects (see on 4.521), decides nothing.

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

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