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Book Eleven
the breastplate, cf. 19-40. Shields might also be distinctively coloured, cf.
Arficpopov ... AsuK&crmSa (22.294). In the narrative itself heroes have no
difficulty in recognizing each other.
799 EioKovTSS, with prothetic I-, has good authority here (including
Aristarchus (Hrd/A) and Pap. 59), though Allen prints loxovTes (wik-sk-)
at 16.41 in the parallel passage and icrKOuaa at Od. 4.279. iioKCO is normally
trisyllabic.
801 This is a whole-verse formula (= 16.43 = 18.201).
804—41 Patroklos runs back towards Akhilleus 3 quarters. On the way he meets another
casualty, Eurupulos, and gives him aid
806-7 The 'place of assembly' is near the ships of Odysseus because
that was more or less the centre of the Greek encampment, see 11.5-711.
OEUIS is evidently 'assembly', OEUIOHTES being what such a body endorsed,
cf. Od. 9.112 where the Kuklopes are said to have neither ccyopai nor
Oeuiores.
806 'OBUCJOTJOS Odoio: for the epithet, regular with names scanning
u , see 9.218n.
808 f|r|V is supported here by almost the whole body of MSS, but is
otherwise an Odyssean form (3X ). It may be regarded as an 'augmented'
form of ir|v when that form of the 3rd singular, of whatever provenance,
became established, see E. Tagliaferro, Helikon 19 (1979) 340-51.
811 CTK&£COV: 'limping', because he had been shot in the thigh (581-4).
5e VOTIOS : initial nasal consonants make position, if need be, whether they
represent an original sm-, sn- or not. The etymology of VOTOS is unclear. The
practice of Aristophanes (but not of Aristarchus) was to write the initial
consonant double in such cases. Early papyri, including Pap. 5 here, follow
Aristophanes' practice.
813 KeA&pu£e: 'gushed' or 'poured', like the sea-water from Odysseus'
head at Od. 5.323. In fact the arrow-head and broken shaft were still
impaled in Eurupulos' thigh.
815 Pap. 5 provides a good instance of 'formular' corruption, i.e. the
substitution of one more or less synonymous formula for another. The
papyrus reads EV T' apoc [oi] 9O X 6l P l £n"os T' £900-' IK T' 6v6|ia£e[v (6x //.,
5X Od.).
816-18 Patroklos sighs aloud. The Achaeans are suffering what they
had just now been inflicting; they are dying far from hearth and home,
like Iphidamas whom Agamemnon slew at 241-5, their bodies abandoned
to the dogs, just as Odysseus threatened to leave Sokos to the vultures at
453-4-
819-20 The vocative phrase EupUTruA' f|pcos occurs only here and at
309