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[107] εἴη ὃς . . ἐνίσποι, 17.640 “εἴη δ᾽ ὅς τις . . ἀπαγγείλειε,” Od. 14.496 “ἀλλά τις εἴη εἰπεῖν”. The clause ἐμοὶ δέ κεν ἀσμένωι εἴη is virtually an apodosis to this wish; for if the wish had been expressed, as it well might have been, by “εἰ δ᾽ εἴη”, we could then not have been sure whether we had an ordinary conditional protasis and apodosis, or an independent wishclause, followed paratactically by a sentence expressing the result of the wish, as with the present text.

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

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