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[204] I have adopted ἦ for “οἱ” from one MS.; it gives better sense (cf. 197), but may, of course, be merely an itacistic blunder. “οἱ” is in any case awkward; it can only be taken as strongly deictic = “οἵδε”, and even then is forced. φίλτατοι ἄνδρες may have supplanted “φιλτάτω ἄνδρε” (and so perhaps we should read “φίλω ἄνδρε” in 197), as the dual always tends to give way to the plur., and legitimate hiatus to be abolished. For μέλαθρον used of a hut in the camp cf. on 24.448, 643.

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

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