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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Among the departures from the direct tradition in Thucydidesü quotation of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo at 3.104, perhaps the most interesting is line 171. The MSS of the Hymns give 
ET-iotacism). The majority of Thucydidesü MSS give 
, but 
is corrected by a second hand in FJ and by the first hand in H to 
. Each tradition exists in blissful ignorance of the other. In Aristidesü quotation of lines 169–72 (
559D, p. 245 Keil), the MSS in general agree with the direct tradition of the Hymns: 
(
A) (
. DU). But the reading in R is a correction. The original reading, which has been erased, was 
. Aristides, who as his introductory remark shows (
in Aristides clearly comes from Thucydidesü 
) is quoting from Thucydides, appears to have read 
in his text of Thucydides, but this has been replaced at some stage in the tradition by 
; the MSS tradition of Aristides has been ’corrected’ from the direct tradition of the Hymns. If Aristides had 
in his text of Thucydides, the corrected reading of FJH is not the
2 Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. Von, Die Ilias und Homer (Berlin, 1916), pp. 454Google Scholar f., Cassola, F., Inni Omerici (Verona, 1975), pp. 497 f.Google Scholar
3 Minuscule error is ruled out by the gloss of Hesychius and the scholiast to Thucydides.
4 Wilamowitz, p. 454.
5 Rh.M 62 (1907), 620; Marx is followed by T. W. Allen in the Oxford text, by Allen-w, T. W.. Halliday-E, R.. Sikes, E., The Homeric Hymns (Oxford, 1936), p. 226Google Scholar, Humbert, J., Homère, Hymnes (Paris, 1936), p. 86Google Scholar, Weil-J, R.. de Romilly, , Thucydide, 112 (Paris, 1967), p. 74; Humbert later suggested (REG 51 (1938), 275–81) that 
may have been written 
to procure a dactylic fifth foot-
.Google Scholar
6 Certamen 320, p. 237 Allen. The date of the Delian copy is unknown, but it was presumably sufficiently early to make the connection with Homerüs alleged performance on Delos plausible; perhaps sixth century.
7 The confusion is entirely possible in a Delian text; the use of H for ∈ and E for η which is characteristic of Ceos, is not applied consistently in Delian inscriptions; see Jeffery, L. H., The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (Oxford, 1961), p. 296. The suggested errors would also be possible in Chian script (see Jeffery, Plate 65), the other obvious contender (hAp 38, 172).Google Scholar
