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Book Ten
385-6 = 82-3 (Nestor disturbed by Agamemnon).
387 = 343, and was athetized by Aristophanes and Aristarchus for that
reason (Am/A); they also objected that since Dolon had almost reached the
Achaean sentinels he would have run past the corpses.
391 TrapEK voov 'outside and beyond' sense and reason, 'stupidly'; a
formular expression, cf. 20.133, HyAphr 36. crrncnv: for the plural cf. 9.115.
The association with Hektor as subject is a little odd, but for the active use
of the verb ddco with a personal subject cf. Od. 10.68 aocaav \x ETapoi. The
usual employment of the verb is in the middle or passive with the agent (a
god?) left vague.
392 TTriAeicovos | dyauou: a unique expression which, however, retains
the regular placing of the genitive dyauou between the caesura and bucolic
diaeresis, see 1 i.in.
394 As an epithet of night Oof) (6x , 2X in this book and 2X in 24; not
in Od.) is unexpected; perhaps because darkness falls rapidly in the relatively
low latitudes of Greece (Did/A on 12.463). A mechanical transference
of the epithet from the formula 0OT)V ETTI vqa usAoavav (also dative with
TTapd, ovv, 7 x ) is not to be ruled out.
395-9 = 308-12 with grammatical adjustments. dv8pcov 5ucr|i6V6Cov
corresponds to vncov coKUTropcov at 308, but in the event Dolon has not
reached the ships and adjusts his language accordingly.
397-9 These verses were athetized by Aristophanes and Aristarchus
(Arn/A), presumably because of the syntactical difficulties that attracted
comment from later scholiasts (Nemesion and Apion, see Nickau, £enodotos
260-3). — Verse 398 |3OUAEUOUCTI |J6Td acpio-iv: OCT's text is that of
Aristarchus and a few late MSS and conforms best to Homeric practice:
with this reading Dolon repeats Hector's exact words from 311 and gives
oxpiaiv its correct sense as a 3rd person pronoun. Unfortunately neither
consideration carries its usual weight in this Book and Aristarchus may be
suspected of correcting the vulgate. Most MSS have the verbs in the 2nd
person plural optative, (3OUAEUOIT£ ... eOeAoixe, as if Dolon adapted his
words to the fact that he was now addressing Achaeans, as he did in 395.
The optative is possible in an indirect question (Chantraine, GH 11 224),
though awkward after the indicative (puAdcrcrovTai in the co-ordinate clause,
but oxpicTiv would then have to serve as a 2nd person pronoun, a use found
in Hellenistic epic (e.g. Ap. Rhod. 2.1278) but without parallel in Homer,
see Chantraine, GH 1 274-5, an( ^ f° r tne 'general' use of the adjective 60s,
6s 11.142n. In talking to Dolon about his compatriots Odysseus uses the 3rd
person (409-11) not the 2nd.
399 dSriKOTes: see 98n.
402-4 = 17.76-8: a short run of verses, used in the latter passage by the
Kikonian Mentes to censure Hektor's ambition to acquire these immortal
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