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[229] παρισχέμεν, to have his horses at hand. For the subj. λάβηι after an imperf. v. H. G. § 298; it is used because ‘the action expressed by the subordinate clause is still future at the time of speaking’; but this differs from the passages there quoted in that they all give the actual words of a speaker to whom the subordinate action is really future; but here the poet himself is the speaker, and to him the action is necessarily past, so that he has to put himself in imagination into the place of Agamemnon giving the order. See note on 2.4.

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

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