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[512] τῶι is emphatic, ‘that Ate may come upon him,’ as before upon the man who had wronged him. This is exactly illustrated by the case of Achilles. He suffers Ate (i.e. puts himself in the wrong) by refusing Agamemnon's humiliation, and pays the penalty in the death of Patroklos.

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

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