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[265] ὅτις = “εἴ τις”, the constr. being the same as in 235, 260. σφε, “τοὺς θεούς”. For the acc. see on 9.375. This form elsewhere always refers to two persons (11.111, 115, Od. 8.271, Od. 21.192, 206). Whether it was originally a dual (see van L. Ench. R. 253), later extended to plur. (and in Attic to sing.), or a plural with a tendency to restriction to the dual on the analogy of “ἄνδρε”, etc. (and so “ἄμμε, ὔμμε”: G. Meyer Gr. §§ 420-22) is still disputed; but the balance of argument is perhaps in favour of the former. (Van L. prefers to take σφ᾽ = “σφι”, comparing “μοι ὄμοσσον” 1.76, “θεοῖς ἀλιτήμενος” Od. 4.807.)

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

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