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a Diomede, ‘and that by Diomede,’ the name being emphasised. Aristotle ( Rhet.II. xx. 23) mentions that in the Ajax of Theodectes Diomede was represented as choosing Ulysses for a very different reason, “οὐ τιμῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα ἥττων ᾖ ὁ ἀκολουθῶν”. nec . . . iubebat. The contrast with the case of Ajax (88, cf. XIV. 251) is brought out even more by iubebat than by sors; ‘my essay was not, like yours, compulsory.’
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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