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[49] τλητόν, tolerant; the other Homeric cases of the active sense of verbal adjectives in -“τος” seem to be “ἄκλαυτος” Od. 4.494, “ἀδάκρυτος” 1.415, Od. 4.186, Od. 24.61 (“πολύτλητος” Od. 11.38, a passage rejected by Zen. and Ar.); and even these differ, as the verbs “δεδάκρυμαι” and “κέκλαυμαι” express a state, so that the use of the adj. may be derived from this (see on 16.7). To these we may perhaps add “ἐπιεικτόν”, see 16.549 and H. G. § 246*. The use has a suspicious resemblance to the familiar Attic use of such verbals. (Nauck conj. “τλήμονα”, as 5.670 “τλήμονα θυμὸν ἔχων”.) Another mark of late origin is the use of the pl. μοῖραι found here only. This implies a distinct personification of the Fates, which occurs again in Od. 7.197 “Κλῶθες”, and is fully developed in Hesiod (Hesiod Theog. 218Hesiod Theog., 905). In 20.127 the personification of “αἶσα” is half completed — and that is also a late passage.

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

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