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[342] Cf. 15.668. “ μέγ᾽ ἔξιδεν ”, ‘stared with all his might,’ as we say, as though it required a great exercise of force; “μέγα” as in “μέγα κρατέειν”, etc. Compare “ὑπόδρα ἰδών, ἀχρεῖον ἰδών” (2.269). “ἐξ” also implies the putting forth of effort, as “κεφαλῆς ἐκδέρκεται ὄσσε” 23.477; cf. “μάκιστον ἐξιδοῦ” Soph. Phil. 851.The phrase is a curious one, but we have no right to say that it is corrupt.

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

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