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[785] Stentor is never named again by Homer, and there seems to have been no consistent tradition about him. Some called him a Greek herald; Schol. A says “τινὲς αὐτὸν Θρᾶικά φασιν, Ἑρμῆι δὲ περὶ μεγαλοφωνίας ἐρίσαντα ἀναιρεθῆναι, αὐτὸν δὲ εὑρεῖν καὶ τὴν διὰ κόχλου γραφήν” (sic: Schol. B “μηχανήν”, the device of the speaking-trumpet; this is the rationalizing explanation). “τινὲς δὲ Ἀρκάδα φασὶν εἶναι τὸν Στέντορα, καὶ ἐν τῶι καταλόγωι πλάττουσι περὶ αὐτοῦ στίχους. ἔν τισι δὲ οὐκ ἦν ὁ στίχος” (sc. 786) “διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολήν. χαλκεόφωνος” is not elsewhere found; but compare 2.490, 18.222 “ὄπα χάλκεον”. The Stentorian voice was proverbial in the time of Aristotle; see the well-known passage in the Pol. vii. 4.For other instances of the superhuman power of gods see 859, 14.148.

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

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