[627] The constr. of this line is harsh. πόδες seems to be added in apposition to γυῖα as though with the intention of continuing by the usual phrase “π. καὶ χεῖρες ὕπερθεν”, as in the formal line 772 = 5.122, 13.61. But the last part of this is expanded and made into a principal sentence, the negative being repeated (“οὐδέ”). Düntzer's emendation “ποδῶν, φίλος” (cf. “γυῖα ποδῶν” 13.512) for “φίλος, πόδες” makes all simple, but it has no authority and is not likely to have been corrupted; the text is as old at least as Nikanor (“ἐπεξηγεῖται τὰ γυῖα, ὅτι πόδες καὶ χεῖρες”), and probably as Ar. Franke would omit 628, thus improving the construction; and to this the words of Nikanor may point. The line is perhaps modelled on Hes. Theog. 150 “τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ᾽ ὤμων ἀΐσσοντο. χεῖρες” = arms, as 11.252, etc.
