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[8] πείρων, cleaving; this may be taken with “πτολέμους” by zeugma, as Od. 8.183; but the preceding “τολύπευσε” suggests rather that both “πτολέμους” and “κύματα” are co-ordinate with “ὁπόσα”, as “πόλεμον τολυπεύειν” is a favourite Odyssean phrase. “πείρων” will then be added as by an afterthought, to avoid the awkwardness of the zeugma “τολυπεύειν κύματα”, so that “καὶ πάθεν ἄλγεα” is parenthetical.

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

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