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[109] The reading of the text, κατακτείναντα . . αὐτῶι, is by far the best attested, though the natural tendency to assimilate the case has left marks on the MSS. The dat. αὐτῶι seems necessary to keep up the connexion with “ἐμοί”: the acc. would be ambiguous, as it might refer to Achilles. But the part. κατακτείναντα has yielded as usual to the influence of the infin. with which it is closely connected (to slay and return), and is undoubtedly more Homeric (H. G. 243, 3 d) than the dat. which Ar. read as an alternative. The harshness of the acc. interposed between the two datives is more apparent than real. The proposal to take αὐτῶι = “ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ”, suggested by An., is not admissible. It would be better to read “αὐτοῦ” on the spot, with Heyne (“αὐτόθ᾽”, van L.). ἄντην, man to man, with “κατακτείναντα”. It takes the emphatic place to point the contrast with 99. νέεσθαι, to return home, with the idea of happy return which belongs to the verb and its derivative “νόστος”.

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

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