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[320] Friedländer has suggested that 320-21 and 322-23 are two distinct variants wrongly combined; in the first Achilles' bones cannot even be found, while in the second they are to be buried by the Achaians. If this suggestion be admitted, it seems to follow that the second form (322-23) is the older and the first interpolated, as μυρίον comes in awkwardly after “ἅλις”. But it is certainly not necessary, and 323 does not involve finding the bones (see next note) even if it is consistent with it.

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

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