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Book Eleven
also be expected, if he is already watching the battle. Zeus here watches the
battle as if it were a theatrical performance, cf. Griffin, HLD 175-82, where
other passages are cited. The gods take delight in a spectacle in whose perils
they have, and can have, no share, like the landsman in Lucretius watching
a shipwreck (2.1—4, cf. 5—6 suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri \ per campos
instructa tua sine parte pericli), but with a sort of awed fascination at the zest
of the heroes for strife and suffering.
81 yodco is a by-form of y&vuuoa only found in the formula KO5EI yodcov
(4X //. only), which is used (always preceded by KCCOE£ETO) of Zeus and
those, like Briareus (1.405) and Ares (5.906), who bask in his reflected
glory.
83 OAAUVTOCS T' OAAUUEVOUS TE: other examples of polyptoton are cited by
Edwards, vol v 59, cf. 13.13m. The figure often expresses reciprocity.
84-5 The transition from one incident to the next is marked, as so often,
by a formular 'run' (here 84-5 = 8.66-7, in both places followed by f)uos
6E ...); 84 = Od. 9.56 and 85 = 16.778. The Iliad divides the day into three
parts (21.111), so that fjcos may be understood to mean 'before the heat of
the day'. The action of 11.91-16.779 (when 'HEAIOS |JET£V{