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[53] Zenod. here had the remarkable reading “χραῖσμεν θανάτοιο πέλωρα”, which he can hardly have invented; for a somewhat similar use of “πέλωρα” we might compare 2.321 “δεινὰ πέλωρα θεῶν”, ‘dire portents,’ and as the word in H. is always used of living creatures it may be paralleled by 2.302 “κῆρες θανατοιο”. It is a serious question if this is not a case where ‘faciliori lectioni praestat difficilior.’ ἰοχέαιρα, pourer of arrows, cf. 618 “δούρατ᾽ ἔχευαν”: not of course from “χαίρω”.

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

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