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[3] ἀΐδιον: for the word see on xxxii. 1. There is of course no objection to the lengthening of the final syllable by the ictus.

ἔλαχες is clearly right, between the vocative in 1 and “σοῦ” in 4. “φέρβει” in xxx. 2 is no parallel, being preceded by the accusative “Γαῖαν. ἔλαχε” is due to the relative and its effect; cf. Il. 3.277, where for “ἠέλιος ὃς πάντ᾽ ἐφορᾷς καὶ πάντ᾽ ἐπακούεις” pap. Brit. Mus. 126 has “εφορα —επακουει”.

Πρεσβηΐδα τιμ́ην: Hestia was the eldest daughter of Cronos, but Gemoll is no doubt right in understanding this as simply “high honour”; cf. h. Aphr. 32 “παρὰ πᾶσι βροτοῖσι θεῶν πρέσβειρα τέτυκται”.


The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.

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