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[281] ἐλπόμενοι, const. ad sensum, see H. G. § 169. Zen. read “ἐλπόμεναι”, apparently a correction merely for the sake of grammatical exactitude. Schol. T aptly compares Thuk.i. 110 “τριήρεις πλέουσαι ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἔσχον κατὰ τὸ Μενδήσιον κέρας, οὐκ εἰδότες τῶν γεγενημένων οὐδέν”. For ἔλπεσθαι with aor. infin. = suppose, see 15.110. Bergk considers 281-83 an interpolation belonging to the exchange of armour — which never has any effect but what we find here. But this is not necessary (see Introduction).

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

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