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[431] This formal line occurs seven times in Il. and sixteen in It Od. is a ‘tag’ especially used for a return to scenes on earth after colloquies in Olympos, which commonly shew signs of later insertion; see 7.464, 8.212, 18.368, 21.514. It is therefore sufficient in itself to throw suspicion on the whole preceding section 352-430, with its curious wealth in mythology elsewhere strange to H. The last portion, 418-30, with its half-comic character, bears a suspicious likeness to the buffoonery of the “θεομαχία” in “Φ”.

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

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