[142] ἂν Ν´ησους: D'Orville's correction (also made by Ilgen and accepted by Peppmüller and Tyrrell among recent critics) appears to be necessary. “ἠλάσκαζες” might perhaps govern a direct accusative “νήσους”, on the analogy of 175 “στρεφόμεσθα πόλεις”, but the construction can hardly be extended to “ἀνέρας”. For the corruption cf. Il. 2.198 “ ὃν δ᾽ αὖ”, “ευστ. ὃν δ᾽ ἄν”. The expression “νήσους τε καὶ ἀνέρας” is a sort of hendiadys for “inhabited islands” in contrast to the solitude of Delos, or rather, perhaps, of its mountain Cynthos. For a similar hendiadys (also with “τε καί”) cf. Theocr. xvii. 77 “μυρίαι ἄπειροί τε καὶ ἔθνεα μυρία φωτῶν” “a thousand lands with their tribes” (Cholmeley). The alterations of either word are mistaken; cf. Pind. Ol.vi. 10“οὔτε παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν οὔτ᾽ ἐν ναυσὶ κοιλαῖς”.
144, 145=22, 23; see on 20-24.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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