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[27] The life is slain out of him: for this use of αι<*>ών see 5.685, Od. 5.160, “ψυχή τε καὶ αἰών” 17.453, “αἰῶνος στερεῖ” Aisch. P. V. 862, etc. Hymn. Merc. 42 “αἰῶν᾽ ἐξετόρησεν ὀρεσκώιοιο χελώνης” is a more doubtful instance. The word “αἰών” had another meaning in Hippokrates, ‘spinal cord’; and some of the scholia actually explain here ‘his spinal cord is visible’!! “πέφαται” is of course = “πέ-φν-ται” from “φεν”- to slay. After this parenthetical explanation the constr. reverts to the subj. κατασαπ́ηηι, sc. “ὁ νεκρός”, χρόα being acc. of the part affected.

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

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