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[384] Asios now appears, unlike the other Trojans, with a chariot. The description of his attack on the wall in 12.110-114 accounts for this, and indeed appears to have been interpolated there for the purpose. If the original “μάχη ἐπὶ ταῖς ναυσίν” knew nothing of a wall, but only described a gradual driving of the Greeks along the plain up to their ships, then the casual mention of a chariot among the footmen would be nothing remarkable. Fick suggests that the name is “Ἄσσιος”, from the town of Assos. For the variant “ἐπαμύντωρ” cf. “ὑφηνίοχος” 6.19, “ἐπίσκοπος” 10.38, with note.

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

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