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[326] For the phrase ἄρτια ἤιδη cf. 16.72 “εἴ μοι κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων ἤπια εἰδείη. ἄρτιος” seems to be the opposite of “ἀνάρσ-ιος”, and to mean ‘friendly,’ agreeing with his wishes. But in 14.92, Od. 8.240, “ἄρτια βάζειν” means ‘to speak suitably, to the point,’ and so it might be here; οἱ would then be an ethic dative, ‘because he found him have apt knowledge.’ But this is a less Homeric use of “εἰδέναι”, which is regularly used to express disposition of character; compare numerous phrases such as “αἴσιμα” (15.207), “ἀθεμίστια, ἄγρια εἰδέναι”, and the fuller “θυμὸς ἤπια δήνεα οἶδε” 4.361.

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

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