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[463] There is not much to choose between the readings Θρασύδημον and “Θρασύμηλον”. It is true that the conjunction ‘flock-bold’ may raise a smile; but such combinations arise not uncommonly in Greek from the practice of joining elements taken from the family names of both father and mother. Pheidippides naturally suggests himself; but instances from real life (e.g. “Ῥόδ-ιππος”) are quoted by Brugmann Gr. ii. p. 33. The construction is resumed by τόν in 465 after the parenthesis.

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

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