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[411] βάλε πέτρωι, he is therefore on foot; in 378 (“ἔχε” = drove) he was still on the chariot, and in 427 he is again mounted. This illustrates the rapid mounting and dismounting of the heroes. which is a constant characteristic of Homeric warfare. Düntzer is wrong in taking it as evidence that 411-17 are interpolated; this does not do away with the difficulty, for it is not clear that “παραστάς” in 404 can be used of ‘coming up’ in a chariot. The passage, however, is an insignificant and mechanical production, made up of names and repetitions of lines from other places (411 cf. 20.288; 412 = 20.387; 413 cf. 21.118; 414 = 13.544; 418 = 12.194), and can be perfectly well dispensed with. Another “Ἐρύμας” (415) was killed a short time back (345); repetition within such narrow limits is usually avoided, even with unimportant names.

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

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