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[445] ζών, see note on “ζώς” 5.887 — the only other instance of this short form. Probably we should read “εἰ ζωὸν πέμψηις” — note that more than half of our MSS. read “εἴ κε ζωόν. εἴ κε σόον” Bentley (“αἴ κε σάον” van L.). Perhaps Fick is right in regarding the form as evidence of the later origin of 444-49 — lines which are certainly excessively weak, and would be better away. The sons of gods warring before Troy are only a few, not ‘many’ (as 448); there are Ialmenos, son of Ares, 2.512 (Askalaphos being dead), Menesthios, son of Spercheios, and Eudoros, son of Hermes (16.174, 185) — all belonging to very late passages — as well as Achilles and Aineias. With the exception of the two last these are entirely insignificant. The passage seems to be a reminiscence of 15.139-41, which is also probably interpolated.

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

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