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[220] ὕπο, by reason of death-dealing foemen encircling a city, cf. 16.591. The position and sense of the part. περιπλομένων are unique; the word is elsewhere used only of the revolving year (compare however “περίπολος, περιπολεῖν” in Attic). The idea seems to be that the trumpet is used by the sentinels of a beleaguered town to summon the citizens to the walls. Or perhaps ἴαχε ὑπό ‘is sounded by the besiegers,’ to give the signal for assault. “ θυμοραϊστέων, ” 13.544.

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

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