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[112] διαμπερές, right through the wound, in order not to have to pull the barbs backwards; the shaft of the arrow is of course cut off. Cf. 4.213 for the opposite process; the barbs not being buried in the flesh the arrow is pulled out backwards. It is apparently implied that Diomedes wore no cuirass; for we should have to suppose either that Sthenelos took off the back-plate, or that the arrow had pierced this also, and was drawn through it.

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

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