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[409] μιγ́ημεναι, to get into the midst of. The idea clearly is not that the Trojans could just reach the ships (see 414, 416), but that they could not do more; it is at the sterns that they are stopped. The huts, in a subsequent passage, 656, are regarded as being behind the first line of ships, but it does not follow that they were entirely between the ships and the sea. Such an arrangement is highly improbable. It is more likely that huts and ships are supposed to alternate in rows, each man having his hut near his own ship.

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

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