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[353] The change of gender, μ́ηλων . . αἵ τε is harsh, but it may be paralleled by 5.140, and is used as though “ὄϊες” had preceded. Fick would reject from “ἢ ἐρίφοισι” to “αἱρεύμενοι”, so getting rid of this harshness, and also of the Ionic contraction “αἱρεύμενοι”. Besides ὑπὲκ μ́ηλων, from among the herd, is inconsistent with διέτμαγεν, which makes them stragglers from the main body. There is, therefore, something in favour of his athetesis; though the words are not like the empty work of an interpolator. Agar's “μητρῶν” for “μήλων” is ingenious, but the form is not Homeric (J. P. xxv. 43). ἐπέχραον, Od. 2.50 “μητέρι μοι μνηστῆρες ἐπέχραον”, beset. See on 5.138, 21.369.

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

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