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[459] “Ζηνόδοτος μάχης, ἄλλοι δὲ μάχην: καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης δὲ μάχην”, Did. This is corrupt, as Did. never gives a reading of Zen. and Aph.by name while leaving the reading of Ar. either unnoticed or implied in the somewhat supercilious “ἄλλοι”. Probably “ἄλλοι” is a mistake for “Ἀρίσταρχος. μάχην”, as the text stands, is obviously necessary; we do not need to be informed that if Hector had been killed he would have been put hors de combat; whereas it gives a perfectly good sense to say that the death of Hector alone would have put an end to the battle. Either, therefore, the mistake is due to a reminiscence of the common sequence “ἔπαυσε μάχης”, or, which is more probable, 460 is an interpolation, as Bentley long ago suggested. In that case the genitive is perfectly natural.

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

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