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Book Eleven
514 TTOAAGOV &VT&£IOS: cf. dvTi vu TTOAACOV (9.116), with the same sense,
for the ease with which such composita are created.
515 This harmless verse was missing from Zenodotus' edition and was
athetized by Aristarchus and Aristophanes (Did/A). It diminished the doctor's
profession, it was alleged, by restricting its scope. In another context
the precise scholarship of the Alexandrians might have suggested that the
poet made the outstanding instance of the surgeon's skill (ious EKTauveiv)
stand for the whole. Plato cites 514 without 515 three times (Symp. 214b,
Pol. 297c, Leg. 73od), but it cannot be inferred that 515 did not stand in his
texts. EKTauveiv (cf. 829) reflects the use of the ids TpiyAcoxiS (5O7 n 0 with its
spreading barbs: Iliadic practice, however, is usually to pull out the arrow
(5.112 and 4.213, 11.397), implying a simple pointed or two-barbed arrowhead.
Patroklos, however, used the u&xoupoc to extract an arrow from
Eurupulos' thigh at 844-5.
516 feprjvios liTTTOTa Neorcop (also at 655 below): for the epithets see
9.i62n.
519-20 Verse 519 is formular (3X //.; with eAdav for ITTTTOUS 3X //., 3X
Od.). Verse 520 is an inorganic one. The formular hemistich TGO 5' OUK
&6KOVT6 7T6T6o6r|v (7X //., 3X Od.) requires no following complement and
receives one only here, where the most that could be said against 520 would
be that it is otiose, and at 10.531, where it is much less apposite.
From this point to the end of the Book the narrative skilfully maintains
its unbroken temporal flow without the awkwardness that may result from
the narration of simultaneous events as if they were sequential ('Zielinski's
Law'): Nestor departs for the ships; the fighting continues, culminating in
the wounding of Eurupulos. Verses 521-95 constitute a sort of parenthesis,
a device to fill the time while Nestor is rushing Makhaon back to the ships,
cf. bT to 3.2 and Schadewaldt, Iliasstudien 77. Obvious parallels are 6.119-
236, where Diomedes meets Glaukos while Hektor returns to Troy, and
17.702-61, where the fighting is described as Antilokhos runs to tell
Akhilleus of the disaster to Patroklos. Akhilleus notes the arrival of Nestor
(599)3 an d despatches Patroklos to him; on his return Patroklos encounters
Eurupulos (809), whose painful retreat on foot takes place during Nestor's
long homily.
521 Keppiovns, a bastard son of Priam (cf. iO2n.), was promoted Hektor's
driver (7rocp(3e(3acbs 522) at 8.318-19 after the death of Archeptolemos.
Hektor's charioteers played a hazardous role, and Kebriones was himself
killed by Patroklos at 16.737. The name is North West Anatolian, the root
Ks(3p- appearing in many place, river and tribal names in that area, see e.g.
Strabo 13.1.3.
524 The edge of the battle is by the Skamandros, see 497n.
526-7 Kebriones recognizes Aias' shield. The armour of Diomedes
(5.182) and Akhilleus (16.40-2) was also distinctive. It is not clear, how-
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