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[235] The colon after ὀτρυντύς is clearly right (so Cauer), this is the summons, which I am now giving. It is in fact found in T; editors all omit it, explaining ‘this summons will be a bad thing,’ etc., in which case ἥδε must mean ‘this other summons of which I speak,’ which will take the form of a summons to punishment (see 2.391-93). This does violence to the use of “ὅδε”, and gives a much weaker sense. On ὀτρυντύς Schol. B says “ἔστιν ἡ λέξις Ἀντιμάχειος”: “χαίρει δὲ καὶ Ἐρατοσθένης ταῖς τοιαύταις ἐκφοραῖς” (derivatives),. “ὡς τὸ “πολλὴ ἀντιμαχητύς”.” For ὅς representing an unexpressed antecedent in another case, so that it virtually = “εἴ τις”, see note on 14.81.

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

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