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[383] Cf. 873-4. τλῆμεν, with the usual punctuation after “ἐξ ἀνδρῶν”, is here used absolutely; but this is hardly to be paralleled in H., the expression “τλῆτε, φίλοι,” 2.299, being rather different. It would perhaps be better, as suggested by Heyne, to take “ἄλγεα” as the object of “τλῆμεν” as well as of “ἐπιτιθέντες”. For the use of the latter verb cf. 2.39. Fulda (Unters. über die Sprache der Hom. Ged. 224) says that “ἄλγος” was originally used of mental pain only, and that the three passages in which it is used of bodily pain (here, 895, 2.721) are of late origin. He might have added Od. 11.582.

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

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