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[359] This line is a threat, ‘let him so much as touch his ship, he shall immediately be slain before the face of the rest.’ (The alternative explanation, ‘he will start homeward only to perish on the road sooner than the others,’ is clearly inferior.)

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

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