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[511] οἰχομένην, somewhere between 290 and 418; see note on the latter passage. But this whole episode 506-18 is highly suspicious. 508-11 do not agree with 455-9 to which they seem to refer; they are in fact no more than a repetition of 461-70. The repetition “ἀρήγων” (507) — “ἀρηγών” (511) is clumsy. The ‘night’ cast over the battle, without any apparent result, is a stock device of interpolators in later books (see “Ο” and “Ρ”). 516-8 seem designed to evade the difficulty caused by the introduction of the wraith in 449. The intervening 514-5 are perhaps adapted from 7.307-8.

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

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