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[325] δαΐφρων, prudent, acc. to Buttmann an Odyssean use, the word elsewhere in Il. meaning warlike (from “δαΐς”). It is, however, possible to take it as = wise in both poems, the difference being due to a reflexion from the martial atmosphere of the Iliad.

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

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