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[585] ἐχάζετο, sc. Eurypylos. The phrase is generally used of a warrior who has just made a spear-cast, and immediately retires, being for the moment disarmed (see 13.566, 648, 14.408). Hence it has been proposed here to make Paris the subject. But the manœuvre is not required by the archer who shoots from a distance, and in 3.32, 13.596, the line is used of a mere retreat.

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