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[88] The connexion of thought here depends on the light in which we regard the word εἴη. If it is really an opt. we must supply an ellipse after “νῦν δέ”, ‘As it is, they wedded thee to a mortal only that,’ etc. τόν will then be a relative. If, however, “εἴη” is for “εἴηι”, a subjunctive (for which see note on H 340), we obtain a rather simpler thought, “τόν” being taken anaphorically, ‘As it is, that grief may be thine for thy lost son, him shalt thou not receive back again,’ etc.

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

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