^{page 127 note 1} In transmitted verse the opposite error might arise, and the metrical ignorance of editors or copyists transform a haplology into bad metre but satisfactory sense. I do not know of any example, however, unless Lucilius 123, †inde Diciarchitum† (on which see Skutsch, F., Glotta, ii [1910], 370), be one.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 2} Noted by Schwyzer, , I.G. Forsch. xxiv (1903), 24–27, and generally accepted.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 3} Wackernagel, , I.G. Forsch. xxxi (1912), 257–258.Google Scholar

^{page 127 note 4} Id., Sprachliche Untersuchungen, 50.

^{page 128 note 1} Chantraine, , Grammaire Homérique, ii. 167.Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 2} Cf. Hesychius π⋯ρσαντες (Od. v. 107). ⋯λ⋯σαντες, πορθ⋯σαντες. ⋯νελ⋯ντες Il. i. 125 is the only Homeric passage where ⋯κπ⋯ρθειν has the goods and not the town for object.

^{page 128 note 3} In post-epic literature Schwyzer, , Griechische Grammatik, p. 264Google Scholar, notes only Euripides, Orestes 502, and Apollonius iv. 945, as possible examples. Boiling, op. cit., supposes that the Apollonian instance is imitative of Homer.

^{page 128 note 4} Bowra, C. M., Heroic Poetry (1952), 240–241.Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 5} Lord, A. B., T.A.P.A. lxxxiv (1953), 124–134.Google Scholar

^{page 128 note 6} Kirk, G. S., C.Q. lxiii (1960), 271–281CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Kirk's paper is a valuable and timely reappraisal of the analogical arguments drawn from the South Slavic oral epic tradition; cf. now his Songs of Homer, pp. 91–95.