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[284] Athetized by Ar. and Aph., and entirely rejected by Zen., on the ground that the mention of Teukros' origin is out of place, and is of a nature rather to displease than to encourage. κομίσσατο, took up, is a slight hysteron proteron with “ἔτρεφε”. According to the common tradition, Teukros was the son of Telamon by Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, who had been captured by Herakles when he took Troy, and given to Telamon; whence the name Teukros. But in 15.439 Aias speaks to Teukros as a whole brother (“ἶσα φίλοισι τοκεῦσιν ἐτίομεν”), and Teukros is repeatedly called the “κασίγνητος” of Aias (see 12.371 “κας. καὶ ὄπατρος”), a word which is commonly used of brothers uterine (see 11.257, 24.47). Ar. therefore thought that the legend of Hesione was not known to Homer and that Teukros was regarded as a legitimate son. But Polydoros is the “κασίγνητος” of Hector (20.419), though by a different mother (21.91). The mother of Aias was Eëriboia.

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

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