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1-55. The opening shews a considerable proportion (nearly half) of lines which appear in other places, and are probably borrowed or adapted here: 1-2 = Od. 5.1-2; 2 = 19.2; 5-9 = 8.222-6 (but here the lines are at home in “Λ”); 11-14, see 2.451-4, 14.151-2; 16, see 2.578; 17-19 = 3.330-2; 27, cf. 5.522; 29, cf. 2.45; 36-7, cf. 5.739; 37, cf. 3.342, 15.119; 41 = 5.743; 42 = 3.337; 43 = Od. 22.125, cf. 3.18, 338; 46, cf. 7.180; 47-8 =12.84-5; 49 = 12.77, cf. 8.530; 55, cf. 1.3.

Tithonos is mentioned again in 20.237 as brother of Priam, but there is no mention in Homer of the legend of his immortality of old age, which first appears in Hymn. Ven. 218-38. See M. and R. on Od. 5.1.

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

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