[341] κιν́ηθη: Typhaon is in some mysterious way the child of Earth, though actually borne by Hera. In other legends, similar monsters are only “nursed” by Hera, in her jealousy; and it is possible that there was an older myth of an earth-born Typhaon, nursed by Hera (see on 306), unless the whole of this myth is the invention of the poet.
φερέσβιος; un-Homeric, but five times in the hymns, and in Theog. 693. It is quoted as Homeric (“παρ᾽ Ὁμήρῳ”) by Apollodorus ap. schol. Genevens. Il. 21.341; see Preface p. l. ἰδοῦσα: M's reading allows the digamma; in 255, however, M agrees with the other MSS. in neglecting it (“ἐσιδοῦσα”). For similar alterations, due to a desire of scribes to avoid (supposed) hiatus, see J. H. S. xv. p. 279, and (from papyri) Il. 23.198 “ ὠκέα δ᾽ Ἶρις” for “ὦκα δὲ Ἶρις, Ζ 493 πᾶσιν, ἐμοὶ δὲ μάλιστα τοὶ Ἰλίῳ” for “πᾶσι, μάλιστα δ᾽ ἐμοὶ τοὶ Ἰλίῳ” (as Epict. iii. 22. 108).
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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