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[767] Aristophanes and Ar. athetized from this line to 785, on the ground that the composition is prosaic; that they are inconsistent with the charge of Peleus to his son in 9.254; that Peleus here “ὡς εἴδωλον σπένδει”, leaving to his son all the duties of hospitality. More serious objections are that <*>δε in 765 is too far separated from the words to which it refers in 786; and that 784 appears also in 6.208, the repetition of such a line not being like Homer. But instead of athetizing it is better to say that here, as in other parts, the speech shews marks of growth. νῶϊ δὲ ἔνδον: edd. “νῶϊ δέ τ᾽”. But the hiatus is perhaps admissible in this place; see on 2.87, 105. In any case the use of “δέ τε” is not suitable here.

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

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