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[464] ἀγαπαζέμεν, an Odyssean word, ‘to welcome’ as host; an immortal cannot permit himself to become a guest to men. If we do not adhere to this sense of “ἀγαπαζέμεν”, and take it more vaguely, ‘shew favour’ (cf. “ἀμφαγαπαζόμενος” 16.192) “θεόν” may be the subject, “βροτούς” the object; ‘it would cause jealousy that an immortal god should thus favour men.’ But this, though with the order of words perhaps more natural, does not give so clear and suitable a sense. Düntzer suggests that the line is an explanatory gloss of “νεμεσσητὸν δέ κεν εἴη” which elsewhere always stands alone.

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

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