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[453] ἥρωι for “ἥρωϊ” and ἀθλήσαντε for “ἀεθλ.” are signs of late origin. The former recurs in Od. 8.483. For the latter cf. 9.124, 11.699, 15.30, 24.734, Od. 8.160, 164. Platt (J. P. xviii. 130) would read “ἥροϊ” on the analogy of words like “αἰδώς”: cf. “ἥρωος” as a dactyl in Od. 6.303 and “ἥρωα” Anth. Pal. App. 376. Here, of course, MS. evidence counts for nothing. But we should have expected some other traces of the quantity in Greek literature, if it was original. πολίσσαμεν must mean built; in 20.217 “πεπόλιστο” = was founded as a city, and this is the ordinary sense of the verb, which does not seem to be used elsewhere of a wall. Brandreth conj. “Λαομέδοντι ϝάνακτι πονεύμεθ᾽ ἀεθλεύσαντε”, Agar “Λαομέδονθ᾽ ἥρω᾽ ἐπελάσσαμεν”: both are equally improbable. For the building of the wall of Troy cf. 21.446 (where it is the work of Poseidon alone), and note on 6.438.

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

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