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[458] σπασθέντος, sc. “ἔγχεος”. But there is no other clear case in H. of a participle thus standing in the gen. abs. without a noun. In 18.606 and in Od. 4.19 the right reading is “ἐξάρχοντες”, not “-τος”, and Od. 19.159 “ἀσχαλάαι δὲ πάϊς βίοτον κατεδόντων” is analogous to phrases like “γνῶ χωομένοιο”. Hence Zen. read “οὗ” for οἱ: as Heyne remarks, it should at least have been “τοῦ.” κῆδε δὲ θυμόν, of purely physical pain like “ἤχθετο κῆρ”, 274, 400, etc.

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

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