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[787] For ἐλέγχεα see note on 4.242, and cf. also 2.235, 11.314. αιδώς is a nominative used interjectionally, apparently as a sort of imperative, “αἰδὼς ἔστω ὑμῖν”, and equivalent to “αἰδῶ θέσθ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῶι”, 15.561, 661. The regular meaning of the word is of course sense of honour, ‘recognition of the just rebukes of men’; it is not used in the sense of disgrace like “αἶσχος” or “αἰσχύνη”, either in Homer or later Greek. The phrase recurs in 8.228, 13.95, 15.502, 16.422; and in a slightly varying form 17.336 “αἰδὼς μὲν νῦν ἥδέ γ᾽ .. Ἴλιον εἰσαναβῆναι”, where we must take it to mean ‘this is a thing to arouse a feeling of rebuke,’ just as we say ‘it is a shame to do so and so,’ meaning a thing to be ashamed of. εἶδος ἀγητοί, like 3.39 “εἶδος ἄριστε” (there is a variant “ἄριστοι” here).

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

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