Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 15 (Ο）, line 274

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[274] ἦεν, the imperf. seems to be taken from the mind of the hunters; when the quarry escaped them they would say “οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἡμῖν κιχ. αἴσιμον ἦεν”, ‘after all we are not fated to catch it.’ It is only by some such supposition that the presence of the imperf. in a simile is to be explained.

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

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