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[269] κρίνηται ‘is brought to the issue,’ i.e. when the combat has to be decided.

281-298. These eighteen lines were condemned by Zenodotus and Aristarchus. The question of their genuineness must be treated in connexion with 19. 4-13 (where the advice to move the arms is given nearly in the words of ll. 284294), and with the whole story of the “μνηστηροφονία”. It may be observed that the repetition of the formula “ἄλλο δέ τοι ἐρέω σὺ δ᾽ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ βάλλεο σῇσιν” (l. 281 and l. 299) clearly indicates the limits of the interpolation, if there is one.

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