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[458] 458-61 were first inserted into the text by Lederlin in the Amsterdam edition of 1707 (see Bergler's preface). The statement that Ar. ‘took them out’ can only be true in the sense that they may very likely have been found in some of the editions current in the book-trade, such as the early papyri recently discovered, which were displaced under Alexandrine criticism by corrected copies of the old Attic vulgate. The lines are neither essential to nor inconsistent with the context. They are by no means unHomeric in thought or expression. The reference to the “ὀνείδεα πόλλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” reminds us of 6.351, and the general sentiment of Od. 9.299 f.

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

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