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[416] σφισι would most naturally refer to the Greeks, as the party last mentioned. as in Od. 22.149 “μέγα δ᾽ αὐτῶι φ. ἔ.”: but what follows shews that we must understand it of both parties, ‘a mighty task was revealed to them, set before them’; cf. 11.734 “ἀλλά σφι .. φάνη μέγα ἔργον Ἄρηος”, and 16.207 “νῦν δὲ πέφανται φυλόπιδος μέγα ἔργον”.

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

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