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[439] οι<*> goes with χιτῶνα, ἀμφί being added adverbially, his tunic round about him. This is more Homeric than the alternative of taking “ἀμφί” as governing “οἱ”, though the difference is slight; “ἀμφί” very rarely follows its case (Od. 23.46 is perhaps the only instance), and in such a phrase as 18.205 “ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κεφαλῆι” there can be no doubt as to the nature of the dat. “οἱ”. So also 14.420; see H. G. § 182.

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

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