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[366] ἐπιτάρροθος: see 5.808. 362-7 are also found verbatim in 20.449-54, where the violent language of 362 seems more in keeping with the uncontrollable passion of Achilles than here with the always moderate temper of Diomed. In “Υ”, moreover, the words “ἐρύσατο Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων” have a special significance, for there Apollo has actually carried Hector safe out of the battle; here he has done no more than give the helmet — a very indirect sort of aid (353). Hence Fick would reject 361-8 here, while H. Meyer E. takes the lines as an indication of the later origin of the whole episode of Diomedes (see Introd.).

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

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