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[711] For the following episode as a whole see Introduction to the book. It contains a large number of lines which occur elsewhere. 753-4 seem to be borrowed, not very appropriately, from 1.498-9, and, as von Christ has remarked, 791 from 13.107. So also 719-21 = 8.381-3, 733-7 = 8.384-8, 745-52 = 8.389-96. It can hardly be said positively that either passage is older than the other, so far as the evidence of borrowing goes; but the general character of “Θ” would lead us to believe that the lines are originally in place here. Again 711-2 = 7.17-18, 713 = 4.69, 714 = 2.157, 716 = 2.113, 738 cf. 2.45, 743 = 11.41, 769 = 8.46, 775-6 cf. 368-9, 782-3 = 7.256-7, 787 = 8.228. This is certainly a suspicious proportion of borrowed lines; but on the other hand the style of the passage is spirited, and does not shew any weakness of imagination.

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

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