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Book Ten
ages past...' — aiyioxoio Aios TCKOS is independently formular (4X //., 2 x
Od., always vocative). For the aegis, Zeus' magical weapon, see 2.446-5in.
and J. T. Hooker, /F84 (1979) 113-15. Although the aegis was made for
Zeus by Hephaistos (15.310) it is Athene who makes the most use of it
(2.447, 5.738, 18.204, 21.400, Od. 22.297). Verse 278-9 (to Trapioracrai) £
Od. 13.300-1, where Athene is speaking to Odysseus and the sentence is
recast into the 1st person.
279-80 oOSe ere AfjOco | Kivuuevos is unclear. 'Nor am I forgotten as I go
my ways' (Lattimore) is probably too general. In 279 the TTOVOI of Odysseus
must be the toil of war, so that Kivuuevos should be something like 'as I
rouse myself for action', cf. 4.281, etc. Danek renders 'Ich entgehe deiner
Aufmerksamkeit nicht, wann immer ich mich (zu einer Tat) in Bewegung
setze' (Dolonie 124), and compares Od. 13.393-4 ouo ^ l-ie Arjaeis | OTTTTOTE
KEV 6rj TCCC/TCC TrevcoueOa ..., Kivuuevos here corresponding to the temporal
sentence in the Odyssean verse.
282 Both heroes already have in mind some heroic deed (ueya epyov 282,
uepuepa ... t-pya 289, like those of Tudeus) beyond the scouting expedition
for which they had volunteered.
284 'ATpuTcbvrj is restricted to the formula KAOOI ueu, aiyioxoio Aios TCKOS,
'ATpUTcbvri (4X //., 2X Od.) and this derivative, which is modified so that
Diomedes as second speaker can say KCCI euefo. The conventional rendering
'Unwearied', as if < crrpuTos (xpueiv) + -covn probably satisfied the poet
but does not please modern philologists (see LfgrE s.v.). The original sense,
as with so many divine epithets, is now lost beyond recovery.
285 CTTreTo represents the imperative of the root aorist e-o"TT-6ur|V, icrrreo
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