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[661] Cf. 13.121 and 5.529. The addition of ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων here shews the origin of the Homeric “αἰδώς”, which is elsewhere used absolutely. So we have “ἀνθρώπων νέμεσιν” Od. 22.40, as well as “νέμεσιν” used absolutely in 13.121. Public opinion and fear of the gods are the double moral sanction of the Homeric Greeks, as of many more modern peoples.

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

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