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[105] The accumulation of genitives is rather harsh, one of the race of those men who are of me by blood; but the only serious difficulty is the constr. of αἵματος, which seems to be combined with ἐμεῦ by a mixture of two constructions, “οἳ αἵματος ἐμοῦ εἰσίν”, the gen. as in 20.241 “ταύτης τοι γενεῆς τε καὶ αἵματος εὔχομαι εἶναι,” Od. 4.611 “αἵματός εἰς ἀγαθοῖο”: and “οἳ ἐξ ἐμεῦ εἰσίν”, as 21.189 “ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Αἰακὸς ἐκ Διὸς ἦεν”. Alkmene was granddaughter through Elektryon, and Sthenelos was son, of Perseus son of Zeus. Thus Herakles and Eurystheus were both of the lineage of Zeus, while Herakles was his own son as well.

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

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