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[187] 187-90. These lines have rather the appearance of an interpolation imitated from 4.392 sqq., a passage which may have suggested itself at this point to some rhapsode's mind owing to the recurrence there of the phrase “θεῶν τεράεσσι πιθήσας” in 183. πυκινὸν δόλον looks like a reminiscence of “πυκινὸν λόχον” in “Δ”, where the adjective is used in a different sense. The object of Iobates was to avoid himself killing Bellerophon, his guest.

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

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