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Book Nine
this does not seem very persuasive as the climax to a list of crudely material
inducements. Modern lexica accordingly take Ospuores as 'dues' (after Arn/
A, 9Opoi) and Anrap&s as 'rich', but quote no parallel after Homer for this
use of OEUICTTSS: an expression on the enigmatic Cnossos tablet As 821 e-ne-ka
ti-mi'to has been interpreted as = EVEKOC deuioros. Shipp, Studies 267, compares
Eng. 'customs', originally 'customary service due by feudal tenants to
their lord' (OED). A feudal due would be a special sort of royal ordinance.
157-61 Odysseus reports only the first of these revealing verses, but that
is damning enough. uHTCcAAf^ocvTi xoAoio implies a condition: Akhilleus will
get his presents if and when he fights. In other words Agamemnon's newfound
love is strictly of the cupboard variety (a lif^Tis, as Akhilleus says,
423), and implies no change of heart. Any suspicion that his offers mean
otherwise is removed by the following verses. At 16.72-3 Akhilleus will say
he would have routed the Trojans e! |ioi Kpeicov 'Ayaueiavcov | f^ma Ei8err|.
158 8|iT|0T|Tco: Zenodotus and Aristophanes read KOC|J96T|TGO (Did/AT),
to avoid the repetition 5|jr|0f|Tco ... &8d|jaoTos. On the contrary &8&|iaoTos
confirms 8ur|6f|TCO. Kd|i7rro|jiai is classical in the sense 'submit' (e.g. Plato,
Prot. 320 B), which is not otherwise attested in Homer: for 8a|ivao0ai in that
sense see e.g. 3.183. An alternative form of this verse, or a plus-verse 159a, is
reported by Didymus (Did/AT), OUVEK' ETTEI K6 Aa(3r|EpTepos EOTIV, ITTSI TrAEovecrcnv dv&aasi (which Thucydides took at
face value, 1.9), cf. also Od. 15.533-6 where the family of Odysseus is
paaiAeCrrepov because its members are KapTepoi; but it would be natural
to take (3a