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[339] ἐπαμείβεται ἄνδρας, shifts over warriors, i.e. goes first to one, then to another. For this use of “ἀμείβεσθαι” cf. 15.684 “θρώισκων ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλον ἀμείβεται,” Od. 1.375 “ἀμειβόμενοι κατὰ οἴκους”. For the sentiment cf. 3.440, 18.309. Here again we might suspectinterpolation of a whole line with the intention of introducing a reference to “Γ”. There is, however, no case in H. of δοκέειν without an infin., in the sense to seem good.

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

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