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[249] “δοκεῖ Ζηνόδοτος τοῦτον καὶ τὸν ἑξῆς ἠθετηκέναι”, Ariston.; an important remark, as it shows that the later Aristarchean school knew Zenodotos only at second hand. “ἐφ᾽ ἵππων, ὅτι Ἀττικῶς ἐξενήνοχεν ἀντὶ τοῦ ὡς ἐπὶ τοὺς ἵππους” (in the direction of the chariot), ibid. For the Attic use compare “ἐπ᾽ οἴκου” = homewards, “ἡ ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνος ὁδός” Xen. Cyr. v. 3. 45, etc. It occurs also in H., e.g. 3.5, 5.700. But it is hardly possible that this should be the sense here, for we cannot suppose that Sthenelos, whose function is that of charioteer, can have left the horses so far as to advise Diomedes to retreat in their direction. We must therefore take it in the ordinary sense, ‘retreat upon the chariot’ (as 24.356).

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

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