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[319] ἄλλος μέν, like 11.636 “ἄλλος μὲν μογέων ἄποκινήσασκε .. Νέστωρ δέ, κτλ”.; virtually = ‘an ordinary man.’ It emphasizes by anticipation the contrast with the crafty driver. The MSS. generally have “ἀλλ᾽ ὅς”: but that is a difference of interpretation, not really one of reading: the two forms were a matter of discussion among the ancient critics. With the rel. it is impossible to get a good sense; 321 cannot be taken as apodosis, as it is evidently a mere expansion of 320. We are driven either to suppose that the apodosis is suppressed altogether as sufficiently implied in the whole rel. sentence 319-21; or to adopt “πέποιθε” for “πεποιθώς” (which has the appearance of a conj.); or to take “ὃς μέν” demonstratively with Ar., for which there is no Homeric parallel. With all these there is the further difficulty that “ἀλλά”, instead of marking a contrast, as it should, has to introduce a mere development of the previous thought.

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

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