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Book Ten
(Princeton 1982), and vol. 11 48-50. The list of Trojan allies tallies with that
of the 'middle distant' allies named in the Trojan Catalogue (Pelasgoi,
Musoi, Phruges, Meiones, Kares, Lukioi, and Paiones, 2.840-77) but for
obvious reasons deletes the Thracians (and with them the Kikones); instead
of the more distant Halizones and Paphlagones the present list has Leleges
and Kaukones. Both the latter are known to the Iliad (Leleges 20.96 and
21.86, Kaukones 20.329), but not to the direct paradosis of the Catalogue
(see 2.853-5^). Leleges and Kaukones, or their names, as well as Pelasgoi,
are attested also on the Greek mainland.
428 For the Flaioves ayKuAoTo^oi see 2.848-50^ The epithet presupposes
the formula ayKuAoc TO£OC (2X //., ix Od.). The poet follows the
tradition of the Catalogue rather than the main body of the Iliad which
prefers generic iTTTroKOpUCTTai as the epithet. However, he wanted that
epithet for Mfjoves at 431, a tribe strange to the heroic tradition.
431 There is a 'iTTTTOuaxos at 12.189, but an epithet nTTTOuaxos would be
hapax legomenon if the OCT's Opuyes i-rrTTOuaxoi, from Aristarchus and
Allen's 'h' family of MSS, is accepted here. No reason is given for
Aristarchus' reading; however, the plural iTTTr68a|ioi, the reading of the
vulgate, is otherwise restricted to the Trojans, as Aristarchus may well have
observed. Arn/A notes that the Trojans and Phrygians are not confounded
in Homer.
433-41 In his terror, we may imagine, Dolon reveals more than he was
asked (so Dio Chrysostom 55.14). This is the turning-point of the Book. At
the report of Rhesos' splendid horses all thought for their original mission
disappears from the two Achaeans' minds.
434 The Thracians are introduced as if this was their first appearance at
Troy. They were of course cited among the allies in the Trojan Catalogue
(2.844-5) and appear several times in books 4 and 5, but then these
'original' Thracians drop out of sight and play no role in the Great Battle
of books 11-17; neither, of course, do the survivors of Rhesos' contingent.
— 80"xonroi: a superlative in sense but not in formation (< !£-KOCTOS).
435 For the scholia to this verse and the amplification of the Rhesos story
they contain see introduction to this Book. — 'Pf^cros appears to be a genuine
Thracian name < reg-, 'king'; any connexion with the river 'P'qaos (12.20)
is problematical. If the name, or word, is genuinely Thracian the question
arises how the poet had come to know it; perhaps through Ionian attempts
at colonization in the region in the early seventh century. Typically, his
cousin C ITTTTOK6COV (518) is given an excellent Greek name. (3acnAe0s in the
sense 'king' is a relatively recent usage, but one that is already well established
in the Iliad, see 1 i.46n. 'HTovfps: cf. 'Hicbv, the town at the mouth of
the Strymon river. Other authorities call his father Strymon; he had a
divine mother, a Muse. There is an Achaean Eioneus at 7.11.
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