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[443] πύργους νεῶν, the fortifications of the ships, see on 12.258, 332. The juxtaposition of “τάφρον” seems to shew that the space elsewhere conceived as existing between wall and trench is forgotten, and that the sentinels are actually at the gate in the wall, not as in 9.67, 10.194, at the trench considerably in advance of it. Whether or no they are identical with the “πυλαωροί” of 681 we cannot say. As the text is punctuated, 444 is the apodosis to 443. Heyne is, however, perhaps right in regarding it as an explanatory addition to the protasis, putting a comma after “πονέοντο”, and beginning the apodosis with 445.

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

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