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[689] This line is awkwardly added. οι<*> μέν seems to be in apposition with “Ἰάονες” (685), which it resumes, and should be followed by “οἱ δὲ Ἐπειοί”, ‘first the picked men of Athens, then the Epeians.’ ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα . . Βίας τ᾽ ἐύς is a parenthesis, but none the less affects the form of what follows. It will be seen that of the tribes mentioned in 685-86 the leaders of the Phthians and Epeians are given in full; of the Lokrians we are told that their leader the Oïlean Aias is absent (701); this leaves the Athenians to represent the Ionians, the Boiotians being barely mentioned a second time (700).

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

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