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[9] ὅ may be a rel. even with “γάρ”, which is the due; see note on 10.127, and the similar phrases in 12.344, Od. 24.190. But the phrase occurs five times with “τό”, and it is difficult not to believe that “ὅ” was here meant to be identical with “τό”. The relative use of the article and the similarity in Greek between the two stems (rel.) yos (“ὅς ἥ ὅ”) and (dem.) sos (“ὁ ἡ τό”) must have made such a confusion easy — at least when the use of the article as a rel. had become archaic. See Delbrück Gr. v. p. 311, Brugmann Griech. Gramm. § 203 Anm.

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

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