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[404] “Ζηνόδοτος ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχει ὕπο Τρώων ἕως τοῦ χάλκεον οὐρανόν” (425) “οὐ γράφει. Ἀρίσταρχος μόνον ἀθετεῖ ὣς δέ τις αὖ Τρώων” (420, see note there), Schol. T. The passage contains nothing but a painfully conscientious endeavour to explain just so much of the situation as is already quite clear. τό, wherefore, i.e. because they were so far away from the ships Achilles had not yet grown anxious (on account of their long absence). If we read “τὸ μέν” (with H), we might explain ‘this he never supposed, viz. that P. was dead.’ But this anticipatory use of “τό” elsewhere occurs only when the pronoun stands for a relative clause (H. G. § 257. 4). Achilles would hardly have expected P. to reach the gates after his urgent charge in 16.87-96.

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

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