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[92] “ἀθετεῖται, ὅτι εἰ σορὸν δέδωκεν, ἣν ἐν ἄλλοις λάρνακα καλεῖ” (24.795), “πρὸς τί καὶ ἀμφιφορῆα; μετενήνεκται οὖν ἐκ τῆς δευτέρας νεκυίας” (Od. 24.74) . . “τὸ γὰρ οἴκοθεν ἐπάγεσθαι δυσοιώνιστον”, “ αν.ἐν πάσαις δὲ οὐκ ἦν ὁ στίχος”, Schol. T. The decision that the line is interpolated from “ω” is unquestionably right. There the “ἀμφιφορεύς” for the funeral of Achilles is brought after his death by Thetis; here we must understand that she gave it him when leaving for the war — an act of incredible ill-omen. Besides, the “σορός” or “λάρναξ” can hardly have been identical with an “ἀμφιφορεύς”. It may be noticed that this last objection does not apply to the quotation from Aischines given above, though the interpolation of the “ἀμφιφορεύς” is as early as his day; it is doubtless due to the fame acquired by this vessel in later mythology. The scholia tell us, after Stesichoros, that it was a gift from Hephaistos to Dionysos, who passed it on to Thetis in return for her protection recorded in 6.136.

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

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