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[56] ἦ ἄρ τι is interrogative as in 13.446, Od. 20.166 (and so “ἦ ῥά τι” 4.93, etc.), giving an ironical colour to the question: ‘was this (sc. what we did) after all the better course?’ Others take it affirmatively, ‘this (sc. reconciliation) was the better course for us to have taken,’ but this is much weaker and does not suit the use of the particles. ὅτε may be either temporal, or “ὅ τε” = “ὅτι”: in the latter case the rel. explains τόδε.

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

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