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[187] （“ἡ διπλῆ περιεστιγμένη”) “ὅτι Ζηνόδοτος ἠθέτηκεν αὐτόν. οὐ γὰρ ἐτράπετο ἄλληι τὸ βέλος, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυχεν αὐτοῦ. οὐ λέγει δὲ ὅτι καθόλου ἀπέτυχεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι ἐπὶ καίριον τόπον φερόμενον παρέτρεψεν”. But this explanation seems forced, and most edd. agree with Zenod. in rejecting the line. Nor is it a satisfactory resource to take ἔτραπεν ἄλληι as = brought to naught; such a derived sense of “ἄλλος” is rather Attic than Homeric, and is not sufficiently supported by 1.120. For the gen. τούτου, away from him, we may compare “πάλιν τράπεθ᾽ υἷος ἑοῖο” 18.138. Or we may take it, as gen. of hitting, with κιχήμενον, just as it was reaching him.

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

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