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[539] It is not easy to decide between ἀλάλκοι and “ἀμύναι”. As a rule “ἀμύνειν” takes acc. and gen., “ἀλαλκεῖν” acc. and dat. On the other hand, “λοιγὸν ἀλαλκεῖν” comes twice besides in this book (138, 250), and we have “φάρμακον … ὅ κέν τοι κρατὸς ἀλάλκηισιν κακὸν ἦμαρ,” Od. 10.288 , and “οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὃς σῆς γε κύνας κεφαλῆς ἀπαλάλκοι” 22.348. The balance is thus slightly in favour of the text. There are two possible alternatives, if we accept it, which evade the unusual constr.; we may take “Τρώων” with “ἀντίος”, putting the comma after it, or we may make it depend as a possessive gen. upon “λοιγόν”, cf. “λοιγὸν Ἀχαιῶν”, 134. But neither of these is natural; and “ἀντίος” is generally used of hostile meeting.

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

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