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[306] ἀργεστᾶο: here and 21.334 an epithet of “Νότος”, bringing white clouds, apparently. Cf. Horace's “albus Notus”, which generally brings clouds, though it often “deterget nubila caelo.” Hector is compared to a gale suddenly springing up from a fresh quarter and driving away the clouds which previously covered the sky. Thus the gen. Νότοιο means ‘brought by the S. wind,’ like 2.397 “κύματα παντοίων ἀνέμων”. Theog. 379 “Ἀργέστης” is the name of an easterly wind, in other later writers of a NW. wind (Seaton in C. R. iii. p. 220). βαθείηι perhaps means lofty, reaching from earth to sky; cf. note on 5.142. But Nauck conj. “βαρείηι”.

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

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