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[327] This line was athetized by Ar. and Aph.on the ground that Achilles should not be in doubt as to the life of his son, since Skyros is near to Troy; and that the epithet θεοειδ́ης is unsuitable. Did. adds another ground — that there was a variant giving the name “Πυρῆς” (the later Pyrrhos?), see above. But the suspicion attaches to the whole passage from 326-33 (or 337), for the Iliad knows nothing of any son of Achilles, except in the equally doubtful 24.467. The loose construction of τόν above is therefore probably a sign of interpolation, due to a desire to bring into the Iliad so prominent a hero of the later Cycle.

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

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