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[210] ἥρμοσε, sc. Zeus; see note on 3.333 and 19.385. Though in all these cases the intrans. use of the verb is possible, yet the trans. being equally possible is recommended by Od. 5.247 “πάντα ἥρμοσεν ἀλλήλοισιν”. This sense, too, as illustrating the active interest of Zeus, suits the context better. In later Greek the verb is commonly used both trans. and intrans.; for the latter cf. Pind. P. iv. 80.The scholia remark that the divine armour appears to fit Peleus, Achilles, Patroklos, and Hector equally well. As it probably included no breastplate, this would not be difficult.

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

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