Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 17 (Ρ）, line 105

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[105] φέρτατον, a sort of meiosis for ‘least ill’; “ὡς ἐν κακοῖς τοῦτ᾽ ἂν εἴη φέρτατον”, Schol. Cf. “α. κύδιστ᾽ ἀχέων”, Aisch. Supp. 14.The variant “φέρτερον” is apparently an emendation to express ‘better than our present disasters.’ Perhaps the poet means to suggest an etymology from “φέρω”, as if ‘most bearable’ of evils.

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

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