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[658] 658-59. Pylaimenes, king of the Paphlagonians, the father in question, has already been killed, 5.576 (where see note). Various remedies were proposed to remedy the undeniable contradiction; Aph.had recourse to the obvious athetesis of the couplet; Ar. did so reluctantly, unless it could be supposed that this Pylaimenes was another man of the same name (which is obviously out of the question); Zen. read “Κυλαιμένεος” in 643; others explained that it was the spirit of the dead man which followed the bier; others again boldly read “δ᾽ οὔ σφι” for “δέ σφι” (cf. on 9.453). But the contradiction, though glaring enough, is really far less vital than many others which are less obvious.

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

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