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[252] φόβονδ᾽ ἀγόρευε: for this pregnant use we may compare 16.697 “φύγαδε μνώοντο”. It is easily derived from the literal sense which we have in 8.139 “φόβονδ᾽ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους”, and may be compared with such phrases as “εἰπεῖν, μυθεῖσθαι εἰς ἀγαθά,” 9.102, 23.305; thus it means ‘say nothing in the direction of, tending to, flight.’ φόβος is of course an exaggeration, as Sthenelos merely meant him to fight in the throng, not among the “πρόμαχοι”. ἀλυσκάζοντι and καταπτώσσειν are equally invidious names for retirement to the “ὅμιλος”, where an individual was protected by numbers (cf. 6.443). So Idomeneus says, 13.262 “οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω ἀνδρῶν δυσμενέων ἑκὰς ἱστάμενος πολεμίζειν.” οὐδέ σε: so Ask.Ptol.; “ηεροδ. οὐδὲ σέ”, not even thee. But it is more Homeric to take “οὐδέ” with the whole clause, for neither do I think that thou wilt persuade me.

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

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