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[623] For ὅ τε the common reading is “ὅτε”. This can be explained no doubt; the previous clause being equivalent to “ἔγνω Αἴας, ὅτε” might introduce a temporal object-clause, ‘Aias and Menelaos did not fail to mark the moment when. ’ But it is more natural to say ‘they did not mark the fact that,’ and to take “ὅ τε” as = “ὅτι”. This use being admitted when the final vowel is elided (e.g. 623, and see A 244) must be admissible when a consonant follows. See H. G. § 269. 3, 15.468, 16.433, etc. ἑτεραλκέα νίκην: see H 26.

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

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