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[692] There is some difficulty here in the fact that whereas we are first told that Eurypylos falls ‘on the spot’ (691), the simile and “ἀνέπαλτο” in 694 say that he ‘leapt up.’ The idea must be that the blow lifts Euryalos clean off his feet, and he ‘leaps’ with his body arched backwards, and falls like a leaping fish. θινί must mean the sand where covered by shallow water; cf. Soph. Ant. 591 “οἶδμα . . κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα”. For ὑπὸ φρικὸς Βορέω cf. 7.63, 21.126, with notes. For ἀναπάλλεται Agar (J. P. xxv. 37) would read “ἀν-επ-άλλεται”, referring the word to “ἄλλομαι” (= “ἅλλομαι”). See note on 8.85, which shews how easily the two verbs can be confused (the proximity of “ἀνέπαλτο” here would aid); and on 15.645 for doubt as to “πάλλομαι” = leap.

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

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