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[266] The hiatus after ὅρκια is very doubtful, as the word is closely connected with “ἔσσονται” — all the more closely by the pause before “πρίν”. It is a question if we should not read “ὅρκιά γ᾽” with D; “γε” would be in place, giving the emphasis of contempt — ‘none of your oaths,’ as we should put it. On the other hand “γ᾽” after πρίν may well be omitted with Syr.; see note on 5.288, where the rest of the line and 267 are repeated.

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

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