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[735] ἀοσσητ̂ηρας, see 254. ἄρειον, better than the wall formed by ships and the line of battle, the “ἕρκος χάλκειον” of 567. It is not necessary to assume that this portion of the poem belongs to those which speak of the wall round the ships, in order to explain ‘a better wall than that which we have lost.’ See 4.407. Cf. Virgil Aen. ix. 779 “quos alios muros, quae iam ultra moenia habetis?”

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

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