[274] There appears to be a double recension, as 274-75 are scarcely consonant with 276-77. We can hardly accept Ilgen's explanation, that the nymphs first shewed the boy to his father, and afterwards Aphrodite brought the child herself. This view is contradicted by the following lines, in which Anchises is to take Aeneas to Ilium as soon as he sees him for the first time (278, 280). Moreover, as Franke notes, “πολυήρατος ἥβη” cannot be applied to a young child; nor can the nymphs be called “θεαί”. Gemoll emends “ἥβη” to “ὥρη”, understanding the line to refer to the birth of the child.
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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