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[752] 752-53 = 12.368-69 — careless borrowing again. Here κεῖσε has no particular reference (apparently it means the Greek left, though this has not been mentioned) and ἀντιόω πολέμοιο is precisely the opposite of what Hector does; he leaves the fray instead of entering it. ἐπιτείλω is substituted for “ἐπαμύνω” in 12.369, and does not give a very good sense; we must suppose it to mean ‘when I have told them to mass themselves together.’ The “πάντες ἄριστοι” are not, as we should suppose, those of 740, but the subordinate heroes named in 790-92. These numerous difficulties have naturally cast doubts on the passage; Christ, for instance, would omit 749-53 reading “αὐτίκα δ᾽ ὡρμήθη”, etc. But the whole present portion of the book requires a deeper use of the knife.

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

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