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[250] δ́ημια adverbial, ‘at the public cost’; cf. 2.404, 4.259 “γερούσιον οἶνον,” 4.343. The king has free gifts from his people, and in return offers hospitality to the chiefs; cf. 9.73 “πᾶσά τοι ἔσθ᾽ ὑποδεξίη”. See also on “δημοβόρος” 1.231, and note on 2.547. The change of person from the 2nd to the 3rd is strange; so is the addition of a relative clause to the formal line 248, and Menelaos' use of his own name. The latter difficulty may be escaped by adopting the variant “Ἀτρεΐδηι Ἀγ. ποιμένι λαῶν”: we do not elsewhere find Menelaos associated with his brother as a public host. Hence Düntzer would reject 249-51, but there is hardly justification for this, though 251 looks very like ‘padding.’

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

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