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[310] The taking away of the victims is strange; the scholion says “ἔθος ἦν τὰ ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅρκοις γιγνόμενα ἱερεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐγχωρίους γῆι περιστέλλειν, τοὺς δὲ ἐπήλυδας εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ῥίπτειν”. This is probably only a deduction from the present passage and 19.267, q.v. Perhaps the victims were supposed to carry with them the power of vengeance, and were kept at hand to watch over the fulfilment of the oath.

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

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