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[199] τραφέμεν: intrans., see 2.661. This is the only place in H., except the disputed lines 2.557-8, where Aias is brought into connexion with Salamis. This is sufficient to raise a suspicion against the last couplet of the speech, which may have been added to give Homeric support to a local tradition universally accepted in later times. The lines, however, are obviously alluded to by Pindar (N. ii. 13), “καὶ μὰν ἁ Σαλαμίς γε θρέψαι φῶτα μαχατὰν δυνατός. ἐν Τροΐαι μὲν Ἕκτωρ Αἴαντος ἄκουσεν”.

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

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