Verse 65 — W. Leaf's commentary on Homer's Iliad 1 0

[Leaf reads εἴ ταρ instead of εἴτ' ἄρ']

For ταρ see on 1.8. Herodianos expressly read it here, not τ' ἂρ, on the ground οὔκ ἐστιν ὁ τέ σύνδεσμος· ἐπεφέρετο γὰρ ἂν ἕτερος τέ. He thus distinctly excludes the accepted but purely conjectural reading εἴ θ' for ἠδ'. Granting the existence of ταρ — and the analogy of γάρ shews that it is at least possible — there is no reason for disregarding the unanimous tradition. The case is precisely the same in 93, where the corresponding conj. οὔθ' has supplanted the only attested reading οὐδ'. For the use of the gen. cf. H. G. § 151 c, and for other cases of res pro rei defectu (vow and hecatomb not paid) 5.178, 21.457. A colon is put at the end of the line (with Cauer), because the following αἴ κε is not a continuation of the preceding line, but recurs to the opening of the sentence (62), ‘in hope that.’