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[449] 449-50 = 17.291-92. χαριζόμενος seems to imply something like ‘currying favour’; he is apparently going beyond his duty in order to display his zeal, and drives into the thick of the fight instead of hanging on the outskirts out of range, as the charioteer should do when his principal is on foot. An.tells us that Ar. athetized 449-51, but subsequently, in his treatise On the Naval Camp, changed his mind and defended them. He first held that 449-50 were wrongly repeated from P (“οὐ γὰρ Ἕκτορι χαριζό-” “μενος, ἀλλ᾽ ἑαυτῶι καὶ πατρί”) and that 451 was condemned by the word “ὄπισθε” (see below). The former argument means that the phrase is properly used in P of a foreigner anxious to please ‘Hector and the Trojans,’ but wrongly here of one of the Trojans themselves.

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

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