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[433] In the compound “ἀμφιλύκη ἀμφί” seems to give the idea of doubtfulness, hesitation between two sides, just as in our ‘twilight,’ where twi- ‘is used in the sense rather of “double” or “half.” The ideas of double and half are liable to confusion; cf. A. tweón, doubt, from the hovering between two opinions,’ Skeat Dict. s.v. This sense is common in later Greek compounds, “ἀμφίλογος, ἀμφιγνοεῖν”, etc., but there is no other instance in Homer. “λύκη” is evidently = lux. With this line another day must begin, but the mention of the night is even more imperatively demanded here than in 381.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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