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[487] ἀγέληφι, locative. The juxtaposition of the two similes has caused suspicions of the first, as being repeated from N. But without 482 we have no actual statement of Sarpedon's fall, which could hardly be omitted in the epic style. The two evidently describe different moments — first the fall, then the struggle on the ground. The question as to which of the identical passages is borrowed can only be solved by a decision on other grounds as to the relative antiquity of N and the Sarpedon episode; the simile is certainly quite suitable to its place here.

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

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