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[49] This and the two following lines are very suspicious. With very few exceptions, mostly of a doubtful character, ὢ πόποι elsewhere begins a speech (see 13.99). We have apparently an addition, to explain the difficult line 40; the dismay there caused to Agamemnon is now attributed, very unnaturally, to a fear that Nestor may have left the fight in resentment against him. Besides, from Agamemnon's words in 65, it would seem that he only learns of the fighting “ἐπὶ πρυμνῆισι νέεσσιν” from the following speech of Nestor. For ἐν θυμῶι βάλλονται cf. 9.434.

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

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