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[62] αἴσιμα: there are very few cases in the poems of a moral judgment of the poet upon the acts of his characters. Against the present one we may set the “κακὰ φρεσὶ μήδετο ἔργα” of the human sacrifice in 23.176. “αἴσιμα” does not in fact imply an absolute moral standard (cf. on 162), beyond what is implied in due retribution (cf. on “αἶσα” 1.418) for misdeeds.

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

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