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[381] “ἐπιοσσομένω ἐπιβλέποντες, ἵνα τῶν μὲν πιπτόντων ὑπερμαχοῖεν, τοὺς δὲ φυγάδας προτρέποιντο. ἄλλως, προορώμενοι καὶ προσδοκῶντες μήτε ἀποθνήσκειν τοὺς ἑταίρους μήτε φεύγειν ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ἔμενον τάξεως”, Schol. T. The compound does not occur again in H., and the use of the simple “ὄσσομαι” is different (1.105). Cf., however, “προτιόσσομαι” Od. 7.31, 22.356, which is somewhat more general in sense. For the hiatus cf. “ἐπιόψομαι” 9.167. As usual the tactical advice put into the mouth of Nestor is prosy and suspicious. See on 4.303.

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

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