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[297] ὑπεραέϊ, blowing from on high, cf. Od. 14.253 “ἀκραέϊ”; an expression very natural to men who were accustomed to the sudden squalls which ‘leap down’ upon coasting ships beneath the steep shores of Thrace and the Greek islands.

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

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