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[105] “ἀλαζών, φασί, καὶ φορτικός. ῥητέον δὲ ὅτι ἔθος ἦν πᾶσιν ἑαυτοὺς ἐπαινεῖν” Schol. So 1.244 Achilles calls himself “ἄριστον Ἀχαιῶν”, and cf. note on H 75. P. Knight and Heyne reject 105-06; so also Fick, on the ground that the scansion of “οἷος” as a pyrrhich is not Homeric. (See, however, on N 275; Brandreth conj. “ὡς”.) The objection from the poetical point of view is evidently to 106 rather than 105; the correction of the preceding line is needless, and not like the character of Achilles.

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

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