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[609] 609-10. This couplet, as Heyne remarks, would be better away. Achilles, who a few lines further doubts whether to depart or no, is here made to say that he will be among the ships so long as he lives. From εἰς ὅ κε to ὀρώρηι is probably borrowed from 10.89-90. ἕξει apparently = will guard me, cf. 5.473 “πόλιν ἑξέμεν”. The analogy, however, is not very close, nor is that of the common phrases “πάμβος, ὕπνος, γῆρας, κτλ., ἔχει τινα”. Others, perhaps better, make “φρονέω .. αἴσηι” parenthetical, and “τιμῆς” the antecedent to “ἥ”, comparing 17.143 “κλέος ἔχει” (so Schol. T etc.). In any case the expression is very awkward.

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

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