previous next

[802] There is considerable doubt as to the punctuation of this passage. Fäsi takes 805 as a parenthesis, the apodosis beginning with “αὐτάρ”, 806. Similarly Monro regards it as epexegetic of the preceding. Ameis less probably takes “καί ῥ᾽ ὅτε περ .. ἐκπαιφάσσειν” as a general protasis, which is superseded and forgotten in favour of the special case introduced by the second protasis, “ὅτε τε .. Καδμεΐωνας”, 805 thus forming the apodosis. Heyne would reject 805 altogether as an interpolation suggested by 4.386. I strongly suspect that the fault lies in 802, and that “καί ῥ᾽ ὅτε περ” has supplanted an original “ἄλλοτε γάρ”, wrongly taken to represent “ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε γάρ”, where “ἀλλὰ .. γάρ” would obviously need correction. For “ἄλλοτε” = once upon a time see 1.590, 20.90, 187.

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

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide References (3 total)
  • Commentary references from this page (3):
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: