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Book Twelve
as an intensive or iterative alternative to KEAEUGO, though no such force is
evident in e.g. &KpoK6Aoavi6cov, OaAmocov, or 9aAr|pi6cov.
267-8 |i£iAixiois .. • V6IK6OV is an easy zeugma and avoids an awkwardly
complex sentence. The Aiantes adopted the same tactics as Odysseus at
2.188-206: gentle words for the fioLoivf]£is at 202-20. These forms, listed by Risch,
Wortbildung 154, are the precursors of an extensive component of the classical
and post-classical poetic vocabulary. |JEOT|EIS is a hapax legomenon.
270 TTCO: i.e. 'in any way', see 15.426-8^
271 For ETTAETO in the sense 'has turned out to be' cf. 15.227, and see
Monro, HG 66. The usage requires ETTAETO to be aorist in tense.
273-4 On whose side is the 6|iOKAr)Tf|p? The Aiantes would be understandably
afraid that their men might run when they heard the shout of the
attacking Trojans (the vulgate OCKOUCOV, present tense, would require this
interpretation); OJJIOKAEGO and 6|iOKAf) refer to the cries of a commander to
his own men (or horses), so that the 6iaoi