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Book Twelve
is not mentioned by Homer, whose knowledge of the region is limited. eupeTa
is a generic epithet of places (Helike, Krete, Sparta, Troy, as well as Lycia);
by the standards of those places it would be a reasonable description of the
Xanthos valley.
316 (= 4.342). |idxT|S KauCTTEipris: note the metaphorical epithet. Fires
(conflagrations, not domestic hearths), being destructive and well-nigh
irresistible, make effective similes for advancing heroes or armies (19X ). See
also 17.736-41 and n., where bT observe that the extended simile at that
point is here compressed into a single metaphorical word.
317 69PCC TIS co8' eiTTT) (eiTTTjai) is formular, cf. 7.300; note the neglected
digamma (fEnrn), a rare feature within formulas.
318 CCKAEEES is a hypercorrection based on the strange statement in Did/A
and T that Aristarchus read an unmetrical OKKSSS "COS TO 5uaKA£a" (9.22).
Aristarchus may have intended CCKAETES, cf. EUKAEIOCS (10.281) etc., against the
vulgate &KAT|ETS with -T|- after the declension of'HpctKAErjs etc. Eust. and a
few MSS read OCKAEIETS. The contraction, whether -EI- or -r|-, is normal in the
paradosis for parts and compounds of KAEOS, 6EOS, and CTTTEOS (Chantraine,
GHi 7, 10-11). Ludwich corrected to &KA£ES, ; van der Valk, Researches
11 184, suggested varying interpretations of an ambiguous AKAEE2.
322-8 Compare Sarpedon's philosophy of battle with that of Odysseus,
19.233-7 and nn., and Hektor's fatalism at 6.488-9, uoTpocv 6' ou Tivd