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[424] χαλεπῶς ἦν: for the use of the adverb instead of the adj. with “εἰμί” see note on 1.416, and H. G. § 162. 5 a. ἀλλά in the next line means ‘but yet by washing them they could discern; and so,’ etc. There is no reason to limit the shedding of tears to the Trojans, as some have done. Priam forbids them to cry aloud, which was the habit of a non-Greek people, see 24.721; hence the silence of the Greeks does not need mention.

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

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