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[154] Note the extensive variants of Zen., partly taken from the speech of Iris below, 176-77. Ar. objected that Hector's intention is not to mutilate the body, but to exchange it for Sarpedon's (P 160-63, but cf. P 125-26); so that in the mouth of Iris the words of 176-77 are a pious fraud intended merely to arouse Achilles' anger. But in all probability this passage is of quite independent origin from the earlier part of P; such a discrepancy need cause no surprise.

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

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