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[363] φρήτρηφιν is evidently meant to be a pure dat., an unexampled use of the term. “-φιν”. The only alternative is to take it, with Moller, as an (ablat.) gen., cf. 13.109 “ἀμύνειν νηῶν,” 16.522 “παιδὸς ἀμύνει”, etc., and then write “φύλων” for “φύλοις”. But as van L. remarks, we ought to hear that the object of the arrangement is not that clan may help clan, but that clansman may help clansman. But all the military advice of which Nestor is the spokesman is strongly suggestive of Athens under Peisistratos, who claimed to be his descendant; and here we seem to have an echo of the political reorganization so supremely important in the seventh century in Attica.

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

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