Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III

[2] οὐλομένην: destructive, deadly; cf. Milton Par. Lost i. 2 “forbidden fruit . . .
whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world.
” The thought is amplified in the following rel. clause, cf. v. 10, 2.227; see § 1 h, t.

μυρία: countless; not a numeral in Homer, see § 23 i. — For the hiatus, allowed when the final vowel has been elided, see § 9 e.

ἄλγεα: i.e. the defeats caused by the absence of Achilles from the conflict.

ἔθηκεν: caused (as 3.321, see § 2 v), nearly equiv. to “τεῦχε” below.