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[163] περιστένεται, explained “στενοχωρεῖται, βαρύνεται”: Ar. compared “στεινόμενος νεκύεσσι” 21.220, and so Quintus took it, “νεκύεσσι περιστείνοντο ῥέεθρα”. And this, inappropriate though it seems, must be the sense: though their bellies are glutted, their courage is unshaken. We should expect hunger, not repletion, to be dwelt on in this description.

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

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