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[213] δῆμον in the sense of ‘one of the vulgar’ is a strange use, as the tendency of “δῆμος” is so decidedly to express the total community as opposed to any individual. Hence Bentley's conj. “δήμου ἐόντα” is probably right; cf. 2.198 “δήμου ἄνδρα”. Horace's “plebs eris,” Ep. i. 1. 59 , may be an imitation, but proves nothing. παρέξ, aside from the straight way, i.e. wrongly (from Hector's point of view — a touch of irony). This sense is else only Odyssean: Od. 4.348, Od. 17.139, Od. 23.16; cf. Od. 14.168.

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

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