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[253] ἕλοιμί κεν ἤ κεν ἁλοίην, whether I slay or be slain, stated paratactically, ‘I may slay or I may be slain.’ Both optatives are potential. Hentze less simply takes the first as potential, the second as concessive, ‘I might kill you, or, I grant, I might be slain,’ while Monro, H. G. § 300 n, takes them both as concessive, ‘expressing willingness. ’

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

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