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An Emendation in Homer
Author(s): George Melville Bolling
Source: Language, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1945), p. 92
Published by: Linguistic Society of America
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 MISCELLANEA

AN EMENDATION IN HOMER'

GEORGE MELVILLE BOLLING, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

In (P 396 ff. Ares (according to Aristarchus and 2) says to Athena:

2 ob /iciLvp 57E Tv&itSyv ALofi'e' a'vtKaS

obrdUTevatc, WabrT7 8e 7rcavobLtov yxos XoD^a

i) tev dolas, 3t,5L 63 Xpp6a KaCXOv C13a4tas;

'Do you not remember the time when you urged Diomedes to stab (me), and

you yourself, seizing a spear that all could see, thrust straight at me, and tore

my fair flesh?'

In the scholia we are told that the edition of Antimachus read btrov6uc~cov, and

P Gerhard of the 3rd century B.c. has 7ravc'Lov with birov6ubsov written above it.

Leaf calls ra67r'ov a strange word. It is found nowhere else, and Wecklein2 gives

a long list of emendations: racvwlitov (Bentley), 7rav6orXov (Bothe), 7reXc'pLov (Her-

werden), ravaLoXov (Christ), adding cr6I4'Lov of his own.

Of the ancient variants, one makes Ares complain of the publicity of his defeat,

the other makes him attempt to save face by picturing himself as the victim of a

sneak attack. Such a divergence seems surprising. I would remove it by sug-

gesting that 7ravl1Lov 'all visible' is an awkward attempt to correct &av1'4Lov 'in-

visible', the appropriateness of which is not at once apparent.3 In their en-

counter (E 841-59) Athena was wearing a 'cap of darkness'; and so when she

grasped Diomedes' spear, it too became invisible. It is of this unfair advantage

that Ares complains.

There is no other occurrence of a&b1'ov, but it is correctly formed according to

a type of compound (with the negative prefix) that is frequent in Homer.4 On

the development of compounds with rav- in the Homeric poems compare Hoenigs-

wald, LANG. 16.183-8 (1940).

When it comes to a choice between the (practically) synonymous av6~Lov

'invisible' and brovoa64ov 'surreptitious', I prefer the former as the more pictur-

esque and as the more directly fitted to the context.

SYNTACTICAL JUNCTURE IN MODERN GREEK

HENRY AND RENEE KAHANE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Close juncture between words is characteristic of Modern Greek. It is worth

while to find out what form classes are regularly or almost regularly closely

connected. Since in such an investigation one should not depend on mere

1 This note is an outgrowth of work on an edition of the Iliad. In this connection I

gratefully acknowledge a Minor Grant made by the American Council of Learned Societies

for clerical and research assistance.

2 Rh. Mus. 74.15 n. (1925).

Incidentally, 7ravOtov would have a specious appearance of metrical superiority. It

stops an (unobjectionable) hiatus.

Compare Risch, Wortbilding d. hom. Sprache, 192 (= Untersuch. z. idg. Sprach- u.

Kulturwissenschaft 9; Berlin, 1937).

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