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[596] 596 = 13.673, 17.366, 18.1. In these passages only is δέμας used with a gen. like the Attic “δίκην” or “τρόπον”, Lat. instar, meaning ‘after the similitude of fire.’ The word is always an ‘adverbial’ accus., except in Od. 16.174 and perhaps Od. 10.240 (Zen. “πόδας”); it means literally ‘in build,’ in formation. Cf. 11.115, H. G. § 136. 2. The line suggests that the remainder of the book, with its entire change of scene, once formed a separate rhapsody.

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

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