Note 355 — Chapter X · THE HOMERIC POEMS.

It is worth noting that these objections apply even to what are commonly regarded as among the latest parts of the poems. Thus in Od. XXIV 305, where Odysseus describes himself as υἱὸς Ἀφείδαντος Πολυπημονίδαο ἄνακτος, the point is entirely spoilt by the Ionic form. That the true form should be Aeolic (-παμμον-) is rendered more than probable by such names as Ἁλιθέρσης, Πολυθερσεΐδη—of which at least the second likewise belongs to the 'later' portions of the poem.