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[147] It is hard to say how this line is best punctuated and construed, though all the alternatives come to the same in the end. We may take the infinitives as dependent either (a) on “ἐθέληισθα” or (b) on “πάρα σοι” (“αἴ κ᾽ ἐθέλ”. being parenthetical), or (c) regard them as imperatives, “πάρα σοί” being either (1) taken as a principal clause or (2) written “παρά σοι” and taken with “ἐχέμεν”. The only impossible combination will be found to be b 2. With c 1 a semicolon must be put after “ἐχέμεν”. With Od. 1.2, which is preferred by Monro, we must assume an ellipse of the apodosis, whether thou wilt offer the gifts or keep them by thee (it is well). Compare 7.375 and note on 6.150. Nikanor adopts Od. 14.1. For ἤ τε = “ἤ” see H. G. § 340.

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

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