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Book Ten
fj TO irdpos irep | ur)TT|p cos 'OSvafji TrapioraTai f|8 J eirapfiyei, but that is
true rather of the Odyssey and the Cycle than the Iliad, see M. W. M. Pope,
AJPSi (i960) 113-35. — nocAA&s is the special epithet of Athene (26 x //.,
21 x Od.) in the nominative and accusative cases. The link between epithet
and name is very tight, and the archaic epic does not use FTaAAds substantivally
as a synonym or substitute for the divine name as, for example,
'EvocrixOcov and 'Evvocjiyaios are used for Poseidon. It was probably unintelligible
to the poet: traditional etymologies, of which P.Oxy. 2260 retails a
sample, link it to the syllable TTOCAA- (iraAAaKri, irdAAeiv - see 5. in.), but an
equation with Semitic ba'alat, feminine ofba'al, 'mistress', cf. a-ta-na-po-ti-nija
(= 'Addva (or 'AOdvas) TTOTVIOC) KN V 52 with TTOTVia = TTaAAds, must
be considered, for which see O. Carruba, Atti del I Congresso di Micenologia
(Rome 1968) 932-44. Janko (on 15.610-14) draws attention to Myc. qa-ra2
(TH Of 37-8 - qa-ra at Knossos is a toponym).
247 7TEpioi8e vof^cjai is probably formular, or an echo of a formula, cf.
oT8e vof^aai (1.343 and n.), where, however, the amplification aua Trpoaaco
KOCI OTTio-aco gives the sense of vofjcrai its essential complement. The irEpi- is
intensifying, as at Od. 17.317 \yyz