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[356] 356-68. “Ζηνόδωρος πειρᾶταιἀποδεικνύναι διεσκευασμένον” (interpolated) “τοῦτον τὸν τόπον”, Sch. BT. For the little that is known of Zenodoros see Schrader Porph. pp. 428 ff. In this case his judgment is pretty certainly right. In the first place the passage clearly alludes to the suspected lines 168 and 181-86, and is open to all the objections urged against them. Again, of the thirteen lines seven appear in other parts of the poems; 356 =16.432; (357, cf. 15.49); 360-61 = 1.551-52; 363 = Od. 20.46; 365-66 = 4.60-61; 368 = 5.274, etc. (the last being a familiar note of interpolation); while the six lines which are original contain several curious expressions. The double change of scene is violent, and not in the Homeric style. The passage does nothing whatever to advance the story or to give any fresh insight into the relations of Olympos, and would certainly not be missed if it were omitted.

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

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