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[11] The poet does not seem to have a very vivid picture of the situation, as Agamemnon is presumably lying in bed in his hut, with a high wall between him and the plain. Various prosaic ‘solutions’ of the difficulty are given in the scholia.

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

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