Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 21 (Φ）, line 609

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[609] γνώμεναι ὅξ, a case where the rel. pronoun comes very near the indirect interrogative, cf. on 7.171. πεφεύγοι, this thematic perf. opt. is very rare (see note on 8.270), and it is a question if we should not read “πεφεύγει” — in such a question MSS. hardly count. But we may perhaps see a special vividness in the opt., which expresses the mere possibility only of any particular man having survived: ‘to discover the man who might have escaped and him who had fallen.’

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

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