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[421] 421-2 = Od. 19.433-4. It may be observed that the lines appear to have been adopted in the Odyssey from this passage, not vice versa, as the omission there of the clause “οὐρανὸν εἰσανιών” makes the second line very awkward. The words would naturally seem to indicate the opening of a fresh day (see note on 381 “ἠῶθεν”). But ἤντεον (more correctly “ἤνταον”) seems clearly to be contemporaneous with “ὡπλίζοντο” (and “ὀτρύνοντο”) above; and we cannot suppose that a whole day was filled with mere preparations for bringing in the dead.

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

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