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[521] τένοντε: H. generally uses the dual, apparently from a belief that the tendons always went in pairs. “πάντα τὰ τεταμένα νεῦρα τένοντας Ὅμηρος λέγει”, Ar. on 20.478; cf. 22.396. ἀναιδής, reckless; or perhaps inhuman comes nearer to the idea of the stone subject to no “αἰδώς” for the opinion of mankind. Compare 13.139 (where, however, there is no intimation of the stone doing any harm to a human being), and the famous description of the stone of Sisyphos, Od. 11.598. Aristotle ( Rhet. iii. 11) mentions this as a case of the attribution of human qualities to lifeless objects.

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

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