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[265] It will be seen that MS. authority is for “οὔτε” rather than οὐδέ. The latter is of course the regular correlative to “οὐ”, but we find “οὐ . . οὔτε” in Od. 9.146 (see M. and R.), Od. 11.483. It has been said that “οὔτε” joins the two clauses more intimately, as though the second were included as a matter of course in the former (Hoffmann): but the Odyssean passages hardly bear this out, and it is better to read “οὐδέ” and neglect the MS. tradition which on such a point counts for little or nothing.

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

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