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[190] τῶ, therefore (I am stronger than thou; for) as Zeus is stronger than rivers, the children of Zeus are stronger than the children of rivers (Platt in J. P. xxiii. 213). The alternative is to write “τῶι” as rel., by what (by how much) Zeus is greater than rivers, (by so much) the offspring of Z. is greater than a river's (offspring). For this use cf. Plato Theaet. 179D “τῶι τοι μᾶλλον σκεπτέον” by so much the more must you consider, and “ὅσωι” with comparatives throughout Greek. But this leaves the difficulty that the forward reference of “τῶι”, correlating two clauses, is against the rule for the rel. use of “ὁ” (see H. G. § 262). ἁλιμυρ́ηεις, only here and Od. 5.460; in the latter case it has a more special and appropriate sense, for it is used of the mouth of a river where it ‘murmurs against the brine.’

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

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