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[110] ἔλπομαι, I fancy, of present or past events as Il. 7.119, 16.281, etc. The word is ironical, as Hera evidently has no doubt of the fact. For the death of Askalaphos see 13.518. That passage was obviously composed in preparation for the present scene. We are not told how Hera came to know of Askalaphos' death; until she left Olympos for Ida in “Ξ”, after the event, she seems to have been completely aloof from the war like Ares himself. This, however, is one of the small difficulties which may trouble the reader as little as the poet.

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

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