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[182] The thought with which the sentence starts is, ‘As Apollo takes Chryseis from me, so will I take Briseis from you.’ But the second clause is broken up into two, correlated by “μέν” and “δέ”. A very similar sentence with a double antithesis will be found in 8.268-72. (It might appear simpler, though losing the emphasis in “ἐμέ”, to take “ὡς” = since. But this causal use is found in Homer only when “ὡς” follows the principal verb of the sentence, and is thus equivalent to “ὅτι οὕτως”.) κε in 184 indicates that “ἄγω” is contingent upon “πέμψω”, virtually meaning ‘and then I will bring.’ H. G. § 275 a.

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

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