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[298] μάψ, without aim or object, so far as he is concerned. ἀχέων, a strange expression; apparently ‘he takes part in the war because of sorrows which do not concern him.’ But this use of “ἄχος” is hardly in the Homeric style. Döderlein takes “ἀχέων” as a participle, ob res alienas dolens, which will not do. Bentley reads “ἀτέων”, which would remove all difficulty, but is too familiar a word to have been corrupted. There is a curious schol. of Aristonikos, suggesting that Priam's suspicion of Aineias (see 13.461) was due not to his pretensions to the Trojan crown, but to the fact that he had no personal interest in the war (“οὐ συνεπεγράφη τῶι τῶν Πριαμιδῶν πολεμῶι”).

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

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