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[561] δαιμόνιος seems to mean properly one who is under the influence of a “δαίμων” or unfavourable divine intelligence; that is, one whose actions are either unaccountable or ill-omened. Hence it sometimes means ‘fool’ (“δαιμόνιοι, μαίνεσθε,” Od. 18.406), 2.200, 9.40, 13.448, 810, Od. 4.774; or indicates severe remonstrance, 2.190, 3.399, 4.31, 6.326, 521, Od. 18.15, Od. 19.71, and here (this shade of meaning is hardly translatable; we say colloquially ‘I am indeed surprised at you’ or ‘what possesses you’); or tender remonstrance, 6.407, 486, Od. 10.472, Od. 23.166, 174, 264; in 24.194, Od. 14.443, it perhaps expresses pity, ‘ill-starred.’ (This is Nägelsbach's explanation, H. T. p. 73.) ὀΐεαι, ‘you are always fancying, supposing,’ an allusion to “ὀΐω” in 558.

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

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