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[381] ἠῶθεν, next day; the Trojan assembly must, like the Greek council, have been held late at night. From 421 it appears that Idaios came so early that he took the answer back to Troy before sunrise! But the want of clearness in marking the passage of the night is quite unlike the real Epic style. Why the Greeks are thus early in assembly it is impossible to say. Probably in the original context, when this episode followed “Γ”, they had sent the Trojans a formal demand for the surrender of Helen, and were assembled to receive the answer.

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

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