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[535] ἦτορ must be taken to mean the life (cf. 15.252） rather than the heart in the physical sense, for a wound here could not at the same time be “ἐν νηδυίοισι”. Cf. note on 16.660. There is no doubt, however, that Heyne's conj. “δεδαϊγμένοι” is more natural. “δαΐζω” is used in the metaphorical sense distress in 9.8, 14.20, 15.629; in Od. 13.320 we have “αἰεὶ φρεσὶν ἧισιν ἔχων δεδαϊγμένον ἦτορ ἠλώμην”.

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

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