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Book Twelve
221-2 With Pouludamas' oiKia and TEKEECJCJI compare Akhilleus'
lido-TOCKOC and veoaaoi 9.323-4. The sentimentality, of course, helps to make
the interpretation convincing.
225 vocOqnv is a notable archaism, preserving the plural function of-91
and retaining the -au- diphthong because the form was unknown to the
Ionic vernacular, see Shipp, Studies 1 3-4, 7. The case fluctuates, as usual
with -91, between dative and genitive. vaC/91 always means the ships of the
Achaean encampment, and bears that meaning also at its single appearance
in the Odyssey (14.498).
228ff. Parts of 228-38 and 246-65 are contained in Pap. Sorb. 4
(Cadell, Papyrus de la Sorbonne 1 (Paris 1966)). The text, unlike that of Pap.
121, diverges only in trivial respects from the vulgate.
230 Zenodotus read TOV 6 J fmeipeT 1 ETTEITOC |J£yas KopuOaioAos "Eicrcop
(Arn/A), a clear case of the substitution of one formula for another.
Zenodotus' reading is less apposite than the UTr68pa i8cov formula. It is
surprising that more such variants are not recorded, cf. 444.
231-50 An important characterizing speech. Hektor is made to ignore
an omen again at 13.821-32. For Hektor's happy-go-lucky (or fatalistic)
approach to war and contempt for divination cf. his words to the dying
Patroklos: "TTaTpoKAeis, TI VU UOI uavTeueoa aim/v oAeOpov; | TIS 5' oT6 J EI K'
'AXIAEUS, 0£TI8OS TT&IS f]UKO|ioio, | 90r)T) h[xco OTTO 5oupi TUTTEIS onro OUJJOV
oAkrcrai;" (16.859-61). Verse 231 = 18.285, where Hektor rejected
Pouludamas' advice on a more serious matter. Verses 231-4 = 7-357~6o
(with 'AvTTJvop for TTouAu5d|ia) where Paris is given this short 'run' of verses
as part of his refusal to surrender Helen. bT interpret Hektor's character
from a hostile standpoint; he is said to be boastful, vacillating, and (bT to
22.91) Opaaus Kai ETOIUOS, aAoyicnos 8e KOCI ou jJieTa(3Ar|T6s. That judgement
mirrors their attribution of a 9iAeAAr|v bias to the poet.
231 nouAu5&ua: Zenodotus (Did/A) preferred the philologically correct
vocative in -ocv (< -OCVT), Aristarchus the analogical -a, after the vocative
of masculine a-stems.
232 The joining of |i00ov with vof)crai brings out clearly the way in which
uOOos (but not ETTOS) implies the intention of the speaker, cf. uOOos cnrf|ucov
12.80 where the implication is that Hektor recognized that Pouludamas was
trying to be helpful.
234 For Hektor's blaming the gods for Pouludamas' supposed folly see
9-377 n -
235-6 Hektor refers to the message relayed to him by Iris at 11.200-9
that he would reach the ships and be victorious until nightfall. Zrjvos uev
epiySouTTOio: cf. 15.293 and Hesiod Theog. 41 for the same formula (without
uev). Expressions made with the analogical case-forms of ZEUS usually show
no obvious marks of antiquity or settled usage: Z. 'OAUUTTIOU (and Z. ...
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