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[214] For μεγαθύμου Πηλεΐωνος Ar. read the dat. and must therefore have taken ἰνδάλλετό σφισι to mean he resembled in their eyes. But this does not suit the use of the word in the other passages where it occurs; 23.460 “ἄλλος δ᾽ ἡνίοχος ἰνδάλλεται,” Od. 3.246 “ὥς τέ μοι ἀθάνατος ἰνδάλλεται εἰσοράασθαι,” Od. 19.224 “αὐτάρ τοι ἐρέω, ὥς μοι ἰνδάλλεται ἦτορ”. In all these “ἰνδάλλεσθαι” is equivalent to “φαίνεσθαι”, and can be exactly translated by appears (in Od. 19.224 “ἦτορ” is acc. of relation, as appears to me in my heart). In this case therefore we must translate he appeared (shewed himself — or perhaps, to express the intensive verb, made his appearance) to them all shining in the armour of Achilles. It is true that we should have expected a more marked effect from the donning of the famous arms; but that is a difficulty inherent in the interpolation of the change of armour, and not peculiar to this passage. In later Greek the word is used in both senses: to resemble, Plato Rep. 381E “θεοί τινες περιέρχονται νύκτωρ πολλοῖς ξένοις καὶ παντοδαποῖς ἰνδαλλόμενοι”, Theokr. xxii. 39 “ἀργύρωι ἰνδάλλοντο”: to seem, Plato Theaet. 189E “τοῦτο γάρ μοι ἰνδάλλεται διανοουμένη”, Ar. Vesp. 188 “ὥστ᾽ ἔμοιγ᾽ ἰνδάλλεται ὁμοιότατος κλητῆρος εἶναι πωλίωι” . It is probable therefore that the double reading and interpretation of the passage go back to a respectable antiquity. Ap. Rhod. always uses the word as = “φαίνεσθαι”, and therefore no doubt read the gen. here (Seaton in C. R. xix. 6).

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

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