ἐνδυκέως (as again in v. 125), ‘strenuous-
ly.’ Hes. Set. 427 (of a lion rending a
carcase), ὅς re μάλ᾽ ἐνδυκέως ῥινὸν κρατεροῖς
ὀνύχεσσι | σχίσσας κιτιλ. The sense is
similar in Od. 14. 109, ἐνδυκέως κρέα τ᾽


ἤσθιε πῖνέ τε οἶνον (‘eagerly’). But in
Od. 7. 156 ἐνδυκέως ἐφίλει τε καὶ ἔτρεφεν,
the meaning is softened into ‘carefully,’
‘sedulously.. (The deriv. is uncertain:
one theory connects the word with δοκ-,
so that the primary sense would be
‘reputably.’)

113 σνυνεχέως, with v. So //. 12. 26
συνεχές, ὄφρα xe θᾶσσον x.t.d.: Od. 9. 74
δύο τ᾿ ἤματα συνεχὲς αἰεί: Hes. Theog. 636
συνεχέως ἐμάχοντο. ‘The v has been ex-
plained by the root σεχ- (guast cvocexés) :
and this is confirmed by the remarkable
scansion in Od. 19. 113, θάλασσα δὲ
παρέχῃ ἰχθῦς (guast παρσέχῃ). Cp. also
fl. τ. δι. βέλος ἐχεπευκές édeln.—The
alternative would be to suppose that the
v is merely a licence excused by the
metrical ictus in arsis: cp. θύγατέρα
(Z/. 5. 37), δυναμένοιο (Od. 1. 276),
Πέλοπίδης (Her. Vil. 159, in a parody of
Il. ἡ. 125), etc.
114 Αἰτωλοῖς, instead of a simple
ἡμῖν, is in keeping with the diction of
vv. rit f.; this was the struggle of a
whole people against a supernatural pest.
115 Oawropev οὖς «.7.\. In his
second edition Blass reads τοὺς (with the
MS.), assuming that -- ~ -- is here substi-
tuted for the - ~~ which stands in all
the corresponding verses (35, 75, 155+
195) This seems metrically impossible.
he Ms. has many small errors like that
of τοὺς for ods.
v] ΕΠΙΝΙΚΟΙ


that crossed his path.
‘Against him we, the flower of the Greeks, strenuously waged epode 3
grim fight for six days together.
