Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 16 (Π）, line 494

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[494] ἐελδέσθω, in passive sense, let war be thy desire; a quite unique use. It might be supposed that there was an oxymoron in the use of κακός in this connexion; but the adjective is so commonly used of “πόλεμος” that it is no more than an epitheton ornans. θοός, see on 422.

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

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