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[6] 6-9. “ἀθετοῦνται στίχοι δ́, ὅτι εὐτελεῖς εἰσίν, ἀρθέντων δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμφαντικώτερον δηλοῦται ἡ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως λύπη . . καὶ οὐδέποτε ἀνδροτῆτα εἴρηκε τὴν ἀνδρείαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἠνορέην” (see note on 16.857). “ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὸ δυσεξείληπτον” (? the meaning evidently is awkwardness) ““τῶν μιμνησκόμενος” καὶ γὰρ ἄνω εἴρηκεν “ἑτάρου μεμνημένος.” προηθετοῦντο δὲ καὶ παρ᾽ Ἀριστοφάνει”, This An.makes a strong but hardly decisive case; 8 is Odyssean (Od. 8.183, Od. 13.264), and so is the verb “τολυπεύειν” (exc. 14.86); but this is consistent with the general character of the book. The rare synizesis of ἄλγεα may indicate that the phrase is actually borrowed without correction from Od. 13.263, where “ἄλγεα” is a dactyl; but we can of course adopt the old variant “ἔργα”. The allusion to the hardships of the sea evidently belongs to the Od. rather than the

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

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