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Editors of H, (I.e.) make no remark ; a parallel passage in 

 Soph., Antig. 843, gives no help. The two epithets describe a 

 wealthy man rich in chattels and standing corn. 



Examine the cognate uKTr//xwr— II. ix. 126 (same passage is 

 repeated, ix. 264). The passage is said to be spm-ious. Paley 

 thinks aKTy]jj.wv a post-Homeric word : quotes Theocr. xvi. 33, 

 but does not notice aKxry/xcji' in liis tract on Post-epic words in 

 Homer. 



In II. ix. 126 the whole sense is against the inclusion of 

 land as property. There is a full enumeration of goods and 

 cattle and slaves (cf. the vow of Ascanius in ^n. ix. 260), the 

 like of which if a man had he would not be aKTrjfxwv cptrt/xoio 

 •^pvcroio. 



Next consider TroXvXr/tos (cf. aki]io<;). L. and S. take this to 

 signify wealthy in land on which corn is growing— rich in 

 cornfields. 



Autenreith, s.v., gives "rich in harvests." The passage 

 quoted is II. v. 613 (cf. above TroAwT-T^jawi') . The word is also 

 air. \ey. The passage may comprise either mere redundancy 

 of epithet, or identifies two kinds of property: property in 

 goods {KT^ixaTo), property in land-produce (Xyiov). 



The question arises, What is the meaning of -Xr/i'os? X-q'lov 

 in H. is used of the uncut crop (segetes). Cf. II. ii. 147 : 



ws 8' ore Kivrjarf Zec^upos ^aOv hfjiov IkOdiv. 



(As when the Zephyr cometh, and stirreth the lush corn, 

 and with sudden rush sends the ears a-nodding.) 

 Cf. also II. xi., 560 : 



K€tpet t' d(TeX9o)V j3a6v Xrjiov (sc. 6V05. VMO-qi). 



(The ass, heedless of blows, goes and browses on the lush 

 corn.) 



{voiO-q-i may be an cpitheton constans of the ass ; or here 

 the significance may be that, having once got into the midst 

 of such fodder, he cannot be got to budge by blows, or any- 

 how ; — if this be so, the epithet is proleptic.) 



If this be the meaning of X-qmr, there is no trace of it in 

 aXryios as in II. ix. 260, in ix. 125, and vi. 201. The scholiast 

 explains, " cAAtTr^s ^oo-Kvj/xarojF." In the passages cited _ the 

 wealth is neither of cattle nor of land. Great wealth is indi- 

 cated nevertheless. Seven tripods, ten talents of gold, tw^enty 

 burnished cauldrons, twelve sturdy racers, seven maids skilled 

 in fine needlework — Lesbian girls who in beauty excel all 

 women : had a man such goods as these he were surely no 

 pauper (oAijios). 



This famous passage has caught the fancy of Xen. (Sympos. 

 iv. 45), and Ovid. (Her. iii. 31, 36), and Virgil (^n. ix. 260, 

 seqq.) . Translators evade aXtjLo?. Paley thinks no satisfactory 

 derivation possible. In any case there is no reference to 



