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[631] From here to the end of the speech is generally regarded as an interpolation. To be unwearied in war is not a reproach which is likely to touch an enemy, nor is success in battle a sign of “ὕβρις”. The whole passage seems an expansion of “δεινῆς ἀκόρητοι ἀυτῆς” in 621, which is of course not a taunt (‘although ye be insatiate’), by means of the commonplaces in 631-37, of which the last is found again in Od. 23.145. Perhaps, however, the athetesis should begin only with 634. ὑβριστ̂ηισι will then, instead of referring to what follows, more fitly repeat the thought of 622.

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

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