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[381] This line is omitted by such respectable authorities that it must needs be suspected. it is not absolutely necessary, and may have been interpolated to supply the usual “τόφρα” after “ὄφρα”. If the line originally belonged to this place there is nothing to explain its omission. There appears to be no other case of “ὄφρα”, in the purely temporal sense, succeeded by “δέ” in apodosi; the only cases in the Il. where it is not answered by “τόφρα” seem to be 61 Il., 442, 5.788, 9.352. But the use follows immediately from the original parataxis; cf. 15.547 “ὄφρα μὲν” (for a time) . . “αὐτὰρ ἐπεί”.

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

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