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[273] ὁμοκλητῆρος ἀκούσας, a phrase which recurs in 23.452, and is more intelligible there. The verb is regularly used of one who urges on by loud reproof. If this is the sense here, the participle must be entirely separated from the negative, and we must understand ‘let no man turn back, now that he has heard one who urges him on.’ Otherwise it must mean ‘let no man turn because he hears a shouter,’ viz. the shout of the foe. The first alternative is more probable, but the vulgate “ἀκούων” would limit us to the second.

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

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