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Book Ten
give Menelaos the same outfit as his rival - Paris wore a leopard skin at 3.17.
|i6T&9pevov eupu is unique, an easy thought but perhaps condensed from the
formula u€T&9pevov EvpEE T* COUCO (2X ).
30-1 OT69&vr| (3X ) is the rarest of Homeric words for the helmet, see
D. H. F. Gray, CQ41 (1947) 114-19 = Language and Background 60-5. The
two initial consonants are metrically necessary in all three places. The
preferred term for the helmet is Kopus. — KE9aAfi9iv is dative singular, cf.
257, 261, 458, 496, Od. 20.94, a relatively late usage developed within
the Kunstsprache. Mycenaean -pi is an instrumental plural (Ventris and
Chad wick, Documents 83). K£9ccAfJ9iv is genitive and again singular at 11.350
and 16.762. Verses 30-1 resemble Hesiod, Theog. 578 ciT69dvr|v yjp\jokr\v
K89aAf)9iv EOT|KE, but there the crre9&vr) is Pandora's crown, not a (part of
a) helmet. — OfjKOTo: the strong-grade OT|K- in the active plural and middle
parts of TIOTIIJI is relatively infrequent in the Iliad (5X and 8x Od.), and is
nowhere formular. Two of the five occurrences are in book 24 (271, 795).
For donning the helmet the traditional verse is Kpcm 8' ITT' !q>8i|Jicp KUVETIV
EUTUKTOV £0r|K£v (4X ) with variant at 5.743 = 11.41, which reveals OTS9&vr|v,
1^90X1191, OT|KOCTO, and xocAK6ir|V as innovatory in this context, cf. the handling
of the uepuTipi£€iv-scene, 4n.
32-3 Conventional praise of Agamemnon, cf. 1.78-9 (with Kporreei for
•qvaaciE). 0E6S (5*) cos TIETO 6r|ucp is formular (5X //., ix Od.) Since cos is
from of cos, the intrusion of 6' illustrates the increased flexibility of the epic
diction as a result of the loss of p-, see Hoekstra, Modifications 26-30. Two
personages so honoured are priests, Dolopion (5.78) and Onetor (16.605),
but the rest are warriors, so that the formula refers to the quality and
quantity of the honour, not to its motivation.
34 Ti8f|uevov: for the -T|- cf. TiOfjuevai (23.83, 23.247). Some metrical
licence for the accommodation of TI0EUEVOV is necessary, but the usual
lengthening of the first syllable has given way to the analogy of TI-0T|-UI etc.,
cf.