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[744] πυκινὸν ἔπος, wise word, here with something more than its usual force as a standing epithet (as 75). Paley quotes the words of Tacitus on his absence at the death of Agricola, “excepissemus certe mandata vocesque, quas penitus animo figeremus.”

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

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