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[397] The ἔπαλξις is no doubt a breastwork of planks; it has been undermined, so that when it is pulled down in one place, it falls ‘all along’ the wall (διαμπερές). The nom. to θῆκε may be τεῖχος (the wall, by being stripped of the breastwork, makes an opening), but is much more naturally Σαρπηδών. The gap is not passed as yet by any of the Trojans; they did not appropriate the passage thus made (“θέσθαι κέλευθον” 411, 418). This distinction between mid. and act. is the only resource to avoid the discrepancy between 399 and 411.

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