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[646] καί, likewise; as men of old time honoured their dead with games, so do to thy friend. It is not copulative, for “ἀλλ᾽ ἴθι” is always joined asyndetically with a following imper. 24.336 is a possible exception after “βάσκ᾽ ἴθι”, but even there the sense likewise, as thou dost to others, is admissible. The same applies to Od. 18.171 “ἀλλ᾽ ἴθι καὶ σῶι παιδὶ ἔπος φάο”, say to thy son also (what thou hast said to me). (Död.)

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

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