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[66] Cf. “οὐκ αὐθαίρετοι βροτοῖς ἔρωτες” Frag. 340. The line is somewhat of a commonplace, and rather weakens the effect of the preceding; it is rejected by van L. after P. Knight, on the ground also that δῶσι is not the Homeric form (“ὅσσ᾽ αὐτοὶ δώωσι” Brandreth; but see H. G. § 81, and 1.129). ἑκών too is not used in its ordinary sense; it must be taken either participially, by wishing for them, or better, as a matter of choice. This all points to the line being one of the gnomic additions of which there are so many traces in the text.

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

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