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[598] εἴξας ὧι θυμῶι, yielding to his own feelings (on hearing this appeal, and not to the “λιταί” of his mother, who had offended him). In this lies the point of the story. Meleager now has to pay for his stubbornness (512) inasmuch as he has to yield his point without the gifts which would have made his relenting honourable. (The context forbids us to take “ὧι θυμῶι” in the natural sense of ‘his wrath’; Paley suggests “οὗ θυμοῦ”.)

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

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