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[314] On this line see App. B, iii. 2 (e). Pausanias in his excursus on the “γύαλα” (x. 26. 6) says “Ὅμηρος Φόρκυνα τὸν Φρύγα οὐκ ἔχοντα ἀσπίδα ἐποίησεν, ὅτι αὐτῶι γυαλοθώραξ ἦν”. The absence of the shield is seemingly only a deduction a silentio, but it shews that Reichel's difficulty as to the compatibility of the Mykenaean shield with the cuirass was not unfelt in ancient times. Another difficulty mentioned by Schol. T reads like a sentence out of Ueber Homerische Waffen: “παράδοξον τὸ διὰ τῆς ἐπιφανείας τοῦ σώματος προχυθῆναι ἔντερα, τὸ δὲ διὰ τοῦ θώρακος πολὺ θαυμασιώτερον”. See note on 13.507.

314-15 = 13.507-08; 316-17 = 4.505-06; 319-20 = 6.73-74.

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

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