Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 18 (Σ）, line 464

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[464] This is the not uncommon formula where the certainty of one event is affirmed by contrasting it with the impossibility of another: ‘he shall have his armour as surely as I cannot save him from death,’ the latter clause taking the form of a wish and being put first. ἱκάνοι is ‘attracted’ by the preceding opt.; i.e. the event, though certain, is included by the speaker in the same category of pure imagination as the wish with which it is connected.

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

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