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[475] 475-6 were athetized by Aristarchos, on the grounds that ἤματι τῶι ought not to be used of an event which is to happen on the next day; that Achilles comes to the battle over Patroklos not ἐπὶ πρύμνηισι, but at the trench outside the ships; that στεῖνος means a narrow place, not a strait in the metaphorical sense (on this see 15.426); and finally, that the exact definition of the time is superfluous. None of these grounds except the first seems to be of weight. ἤματι τῶι is used of the future only here and in 22.359.

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

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