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[85] Here, again, those who believe in the antiquity of I have to resort to athetesis, as the restoration of Briseis and the “ἀγλαὰ δῶρα” are actually offered in 9.274. The selfishness of Achilles is open enough, and is quite in keeping with his character; his friend's glory is to be sacrificed in favour of his own. Hentze finds the interposition of 84-86 between the announcement and the expression of Achilles' advice ‘clumsy and confusing.’ This can hardly be anything but the result of a parti pris.

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

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