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[82] The idea clearly is that the supreme king has an innate right to communications from heaven on behalf of the people at large. Nestor's silence with respect to Agamemnon's last proposition may perhaps be explained as due to disapproval of a resolution which he sees it is useless to resist. But the speech is singularly jejune and unlike the usualstyle of Nestor; l. 82 seems much more in place in 24.222; and Aristarchos rejected 76-83 entirely, on the ground that it was for Agamemnon and not for Nestor to lead the way out from the council.

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

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