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[213] “ἀθετεῖται, ὅτι ἐκλύει τὴν χάριν” (does away with the graciousness of the gift', “εἰ ἕνεκα τοῦ Διὸς δίδωσι καὶ οὐκ αὐτῆς: προηθέτει δὲ καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης”. The criticism is petty, and athetesis would leave us with a speech of one line only — a thing which is found occasionally in the later books, but not elsewhere before 18.182. The use of the article in τοῦ ἀρίστου is suspicious.

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

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