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[117] ἀδειής for “ἀδϝεής” contains two offences against metre (cf. 8.423 “ἀδδεές”). “ἀταρβής” and “ἀτειρής” have been suggested, but the corruption is wholly improbable. 117-9 may well be a later addition made up of reminiscences of 19.72-3 and 5.409. The repetition “δηΐου .. δηϊοτῆτος” occurs only here and 174; it is especially disagreeable in view of the fact that “δηϊοτής” regularly means the general engagement, not a single combat. See on 3.20. For γόνυ κάμπτειν ‘to take rest’ cf. also Od. 5.453. The phrase is common in tragedy.

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

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