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[763] τῆς: so all MSS.; but there can be no doubt that the right reading is “ἧς” or “ἑῆς”, cf. 17.25 “ἧς ἥβης ἀπόνητο”, and see App. A. οἶος ἀπονήσεται, will have the profit to himself — an expression immediately corrected; ‘(nay, no profit; on the contrary) he will weep tears of penitence.’ μετα- gives the idea of penitence through that of ‘after’ as in “μεταμελεῖσθαι”, etc. 765-6 = 9.252-3.

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

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