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[687] παῖδές τοι, the MSS. generally accent “παῖδες τοί”. But such a use of the article is very doubtful. It can perhaps be explained as used to oppose the sons left behind to Hector; but this is not satisfactory. Of course μετ. λελειμμένοι cannot mean ‘left alive’ as opposed to the slain. There is no difficulty in “παῖδές τοι”, ‘the sons thou hast, remaining behind,’ like “τό ῥά οἱ τεθυωμένον ἦεν” 14.172, q.v.

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

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