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Book Eleven
838; it is paralleled by TrjAspiax' f|pcos at Od. 4.312. Nominative
preceded by a dactylic name, however, is an established formula type:
"Aaios/AfjiTos/MoOAios/nsipoos/OaiSiiios f|pcos. ireAcbpios is generic, being
used of Aias, Akhilleus, Hektor, Periphas, and indirectly of Agamemnon,
but is very much to the point here.
822 The pattern of the verse is that used for a name scanned -uufollowed
by epithet (SoupiKAuTos, TreirwuEvos, etc.), the epithet being here
replaced by a word appropriate to context, the participle |3e|3Armevos. A
substantial part of the paradosis has TTeTrvvuevos here, although in the Iliad
that epithet is kept for councillors (Antenor 3.203, Pouludamas 18.249),
young men (Antilokhos 23.586), subordinate warriors (Meriones 13.254,
266), and heralds (7.276 etc.). (3£(3AT||J6VOS is almost a special epithet for
Eurupulos in this neighbourhood (592, 809, 12.2).
824 For the sense of ev vquai ... irecreovTai, here 'die beside the ships',
see 9.235n. The Achaeans are clearly the subject. Aristarchus (Arn/A)
wished to understand Tpcoes, perhaps for consistency with the other occurrences.
There is, however, no difficulty in a formula's being flexible in its
meaning as well as its shape.
825-6 =16.23-4.
829ft On the treatment of wounds, see 4.218-19^ Eurupulos evidently
does not fear poison, for Patroklos is invited merely to wash the wound not
to suck it, as Makhaon did that of Menelaos in book 4. For IKTCCU' see 844^
831—2 The poet alludes without further explanation to a well-known
corpus of 'knowledge', the saga of Akhilleus, beginning with (or indeed
before) his birth and education. In the Iliad Kheiron is always an instructor
of heroes, supplying (p&puocKCC as here to Makhaon at 4.219 and the famous
spear to Peleus in a similar verse at 16.143. This passing reference to his
teaching Akhilleus accords with legend ([Hesiod] fr. 204.87-9 M-W, Pind.
Pyth. 6.21-3, N. 3.43-53), but implicitly contradicts Phoinix' story at
9.485-95 - which was almost certainly an ad hoc invention. It is not clear
why he should be SIKCUOTCCTOS unless it be in contrast with the hubristic
disposition of the other Centaurs. — irpoTf appears to construe with the
genitive 'AxiAfps (so Leaf), a rare usage; equally rare is the use of TipOTi
where irpos could stand. TrpoTi occurs in the vernacular dialects (in the form
TTOpTi) only in Central Cretan and in the epic tradition only in Iliad and
Odyssey, not in Hesiod or the Hymns. The complex usage of irpos, TTOT(, TrpoTi
is examined by W. F. Wyatt, SMEA 19 (1978) 89-123: generally upos is
the free form, TT(P)OTI restricted to traditional phraseology. — Zenodotus
read 8e6dacr0ai for SeSiS&xOai: an attractive reading, but the paradosis
(including Pap. 5) is unanimous against him.
833-6 Eurupulos uses a speaker's grammar, first stating his subject ('As
for the surgeons ...'), then slipping into an indirect statement (TOV uev ...
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