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[299] ἔλασσεν: Didymos mentions an old variant “ἔεργεν”. The “κακοί”, it is to be presumed, are a section of the “πεζοί”, of whom the best are kept as a reserve. There does not seem to be any other allusion to a formation in more than a single line. The schol. accordingly explains that “πρῶτα” means ‘on the right wing,’ “ἐξόπιθε” ‘on the left,’ and says that ‘one “κακός” is placed between two “ἀνδρεῖοι”,’ not a very likely thing (“ἐπὶ γὰρ μετώπου τάσσει τὴν φάλαγγα, οὐ κατὰ βάθους”).

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

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