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[114] Did. says that Zen. athetized this line and Aph.omitted it; Ar. though not named must also have athetized it, as the obelos is affixed in The A. verse is unobjectionable in itself, and if the genealogy is to follow the father's name seems indispensable. But the whole passage from 114 to 125 is not only needless but incongruous, and quite alien to the character of Diomedes, who is fond of alluding to his father's prowess, but could hardly give a jejune catalogue of his relationships at such a moment. It is no doubt an interpolation, like many others, of the genealogical school connected with the name of Hesiod. The objection to 114 that Tydeus, though killed in the siege of Thebes, was buried, according to the later legend, at Eleusis, is of no weight; for Pausanias (ix. 18. 2) says that his tomb was shewn at Thebes as well.

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

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