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[229] It is remarkable that Aias should be dismissed in one line (cf. on 2.558), and Diomedes altogether omitted; the name of the latter indeed does not occur at all before 4.365, except in the Catalogue, 2.563, 567, and he drops entirely out of the action after “Λ”, except in the games in “ψ” and one speech in “Ξ” (109 sqq.). It is not impossible that Idomeneus, who is frequently the object of disproportionate praise, has here supplanted the description of the more famous warriors.

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

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