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[424] μένος is perhaps best taken as an acc. of relation, slacked not in his fury. But in Od. 22.63 “οὐδέ κεν ὧς ἔτι χεῖρας ἐμὰς λήξαιμι φόνοιο” the verb is clearly transitive, and this use would be more natural here, cf. “παῦε τεὸν μένος” 1.282. The variant “Ἰδομενεῦς” as gen. is out of the question. 21.305 “οὐδὲ Σκάμανδρος ἔληγε τὸ ὃν μένος” is exactly similar.

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

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