Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)

In this article, I argue for an intertextual connection between Aspis 59 and the Iliadic formula Ἄρης ἆτος πολέμοιο as well as an intratextual one between ἆτον πολέμοιο (Sc. 59) and ἄαται πολέμοιο (Sc. 101). I further suggest that ἄαται is an artificial form which has been playfully invented by the composer. This morphological interpretation of ἄαται might shed some new light on the isolated epic forms ἕωμεν (Il. 19.402) and ἄμεναι (Il. 21.70) from the same root (*seh2- “satiate oneself”).