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[174] ἔμπης, “νῦν ὁμοίως” Schol. B (Ar.?), ‘came alike to earth and heaven.’ But it is impossible to reconcile this with other uses of the word. It seems to have meant originally altogether, here perhaps everywhere, throughout. This easily passes into the adversative sense, as in our although, for all that, toutefois (see M. and R. on Od. 2.199). It is, however, possible to give the word its ordinary sense, ‘if it was but stirred, yet all the same the savour reached heaven and earth,’ as though it had been poured over both.

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

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