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[18] The text follows Nikanor (with L. Lange and Döderlein) in putting a comma after πάντες and a colon at the end of the next line, so that κρεμάσαντες goes closely with πειρήσασθε, ‘fasten a rope, and try me.’ With the ordinary punctuation, in which there is a colon after “πάντες” and no stop after “κρεμάσαντες”, it is necessary either to read “πάντές τ᾽” for “πάντες δ᾽” in 20, or to assume a harsh change of construction, ‘the participle being regarded as half independent, and the imperative being added in 20 as though another finite verb had preceded.’ (So Ameis.)

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

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