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[195] 195-98 were athetized by Ar. on the ground that the last three lines are wrongly borrowed from 17.30-32; he rightly urged that there Menelaos tells Euphorbos to retire because his only aim is to get the body of Patroklos, whereas here Achilles has come into battle to wreak his vengeance, and should not be willing to let his first antagonist escape. But here again the vice is inherent in the whole scene. ἐρύεσθαι is perhaps best taken as fut., though the pres. is quite possible, is now protecting thee; cf. 9.248, 10.44. It is practically indifferent whether we read “σε ῥύεσθαι” or the text, as “ῥύεσθαι” has both “υ^” and “υ_”.

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

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