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[603] 603-7. It has been objected to these lines (1) that προσέειπε in 602 ought, according to the regular Homeric practice, to be followed by the actual words spoken. (2) That a speech of a single line like 606 is very rare; this is indeed the only instance in any book before “Σ”. (3) That the allusion to coming events in 604 is not Homeric. Though these reasons are not convincing, yet taken together they have some force. (3) however is not exact, see 5.662, etc.

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

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