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[125] τὰ μέν is here the relative, what we have plundered out of the towns, that is divided. But this use of “τά” is not consistent with the usual practice by which the art. when used as a relative must follow the noun or pronoun to which it refers, and we ought probably to read “ἀλλά θ᾽ ἃ μέν” (see H. G. § 262). Even then “ἐξεπράθομεν” is curious; elsewhere “πέρθειν” is used only with city, not booty, as the object. The preceding ten years of war have been mainly occupied in plundering neighbouring towns; Achilles counts twenty-three such forays in 9.328, and they are alluded to elsewhere.

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

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