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[28] The following passage, down to 40, was athetized by Aristarchos, on the grounds that it is wholly composed of lines from other places, and that it entirely destroys the effect of the masterful words of Zeus. Few will be disposed to doubt the validity of these reasons for condemnation. In the sequel Zeus unmistakably shews that his threats were seriously meant (397 ff.). The lines seem to have been added by some one who thought that excuse was needed for the moral support so freely given to the Greeks by Athene and Hera, e.g. 218, 10.507, 11.438, 15.668, 17.552, etc.

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

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