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Book Nine
33, moots the possibility here and at 5.256 (ea as uu) of a singer's slip, for
which cf. A. B. Lord, Singer of Tales (Cambridge, Mass., i960) 38, 44.
416 Athetized by Aristarchus (Am/A) as being pleonastic and not read
by Zenodotus (Did/AT). The verse gives a clearer construction to ITTI Srjpdv
8s uoi aicov in 415, as Aristarchus noted, and that would be a motive for its
insertion, but see 44n.
420 X e ^P a ^1 v: f° r tne hiatus before efjv cf. Zeus 6E eov (1.533), 6s xe hf\s
(Od. 8.524). There is no initial digamma (£6s < sewos), but the usage may
well be affected by (p)6s (< reduced-grade swos). The protective hand of
Zeus is an easy metaphor, cf. 4.249, 5.433, 24.374, ^- 14.184, though more
typical of Near Eastern thought than Greek. The formula is (ai KS) uirepaxTi
X^Tpa Kpovicov (2X ), but the conjugation of Cnrrspex^iv results in a rather
protean expression. The metaphorical uses of yeip are examined by A. B.
Gross, Gymnasium 77 (1970) 365-75.
422 The second hemistich of the verse = 4.323. There, however,
yepovTCOV meant 'the old', here it implies 'counsellors'. The privilege is that
of speaking freely (corocpavai), cf. 33.
424 aaco < cjaor), subjunctive of aaoco, see LSJ s.v.