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[110] τόδε κῦδος, the following solace to his honour, viz. the receipt of gifts in return for the body instead of having to yield it “ἀπριάτην ἀνάποινον”. The whole of the ninth book shews that it was in the receipt of a quid pro quo that the heroic point of honour lay; cf. particularly 9.515, 9.598. “κῦδος προσάπτειν” is a common phrase in later Greek (e.g. Pind. N. viii. 36, Soph. El. 355 “τῶι τεθνηκότι τιμὰς προσάπτειν”, and others in Lex.), though not recurring in H.; but cf. “ἐπὶ κῦδος ἔθηκεν” 23.400. Acc. to Did., Zen. read “προϊάπτω, ἵνα ταὐτὸν ὑπάρχηι τῶι προϊάλλω, οἷον δίδωμι, προσπένδω”, and so Ar. “ἐν τοῖς πρὸς Κωμανόν”, which may indicate that he had the text in his editions. There is no support for such a sense of “προϊάπτω” in H. (cf. 1.3) or in all Greek.

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

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