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[254] The mound is evidently only a cenotaph; the bones are not to be laid in it, like those of Hector who is in his own land, but are kept in the hut to be taken with those of Achilles to Thessaly. The reading ἐν κλισίηι δ᾽ ἐνθέντες is on the whole preferable to the vulg. “ἐν κλισίηισι δὲ θέντες”. The corruption is a very easy one (cf. “ἐφθέγξατο” for “ἐκφθέγξατο” 21.213); and though the generalizing plur. is quite possible where only one hut is meant, yet it gives an unsuitable colour of indifference (almost ‘some hut or other’).

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

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