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[460] The way in which the “θώρηξ” is added to the rest of the panoply obviously suggests an afterthought. We can hardly expunge 460-61 altogether. for we expect Thetis to state explicitly that the armour has been lost; but the beginning of the line may easily have been altered from “νῦν γὰρ τεύχεα καλά” or the like. οἱ is obviously in the wrong position after the verb (for “ὅ γάρ ϝοι ἦν”). As the text stands we might well adopt the variant “ἅ” for “ὅ”, referring the rel. to “τεύχεα”, implied in what precedes, and not to the breastplate only.

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

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