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[189] This line was athetized by Aph.and Ar. on the ground that it is absurd to make the horses drink wine. The line in this case will be a singularly unfortunate expedient on the part of an interpolator who was offended at Hector's being made to eat grain, as is the case if we omit it. πυρός has to be ground before it can be the food of men, Od. 20.109. The whole passage is too hopeless to be remedied by a single omission. The attention shewn to the horses is paralleled in 23.281-2.

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

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