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[120] ἧκε φέρεσθαι, sent him off (as “πᾶν δ᾽ ἦμαρ φερόμην” 1.592, “ἧκα πόδας καὶ χεῖρε φέρεσθαι” Od. 12.442, ‘let go,’ Od. 19.468 “πόδα προέηκε φέρεσθαι”). “φέρεσθαι” means no more than to go his way, drift, expressing not so much the motion as the absence of guidance, and therefore of any care, on the part of the thrower. It is the passive equivalent of the pleonastic infin. in “βῆἰέναι”.

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

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