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[552] 552 = 11.403, where it introduces a speech very similar in construction to Agenor's, though shorter. The scheme of Hector's deliberation, 22.99-130, is still closer to the present. In all these cases two alternatives are discussed and rejected, with the identical line 11.407 = 21.562 = 22.122, in favour of the more heroic course. Between Hector's speech and Antenor 's there is the further resemblance that (1) the most obvious means of escape, direct flight, is summarily rejected; (2) a more circuitous evasion is first entertained and then dropped, after both sides have been considered; (3) resistance is decided upon with some faint hope.

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

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