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[841] See 2.416, where this threat is actually made, but under circumstances very different from those imagined by Hector. The irony of Hector's sarcasm and its falseness is heightened when we find the same tone in Achilles' words to Hector himself when he lies dying in 22.331-36. The two passages are closely parallel throughout; note that 855-58 = 22.361-64. In both cases the dramatic effect of the contrast between the victor's taunt and the solemn prophecy of the dying man is extraordinarily fine. αἱματόεντα is proleptic, like “ῥωγαλέον” in 2.417.

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

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