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[135] μεμαώς, a nominativus pendens, the construction being changed in the following line, cf. 6.510. καί is here probably not and, but even, and is to be taken closely with περ, as elsewhere when the two words occur together; the line being thus added asyndetically in explanation of 134. For “καὶ .. περ” at the beginning of a sentence see Od. 20.271 “καὶ χαλεπόν περ ἐόντα δεχώμεθα μῦθον, Ἀχαιοί”. In all other instances “καί περ” follows the principal verb. Hence many edd. place the comma after “ἐμίχθη”, and the colon after “μάχεσθαι”, so that “μεμαώς” agrees with “Τυδεΐδης” in 134. But this gives an entirely false antithesis; Diomedes does not return to the battle although, but because, he was eager before.

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

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