§ 2 — W. Leaf's introduction to Homer's Iliad 1 0

The weak points on which Lachmann fixed are two. The first is the inconsistency involved in 423, where it is said that all the gods went ‘yesterday’ to the Aethiopians; whereas Apollo is elsewhere conceived as still shooting his darts at the Greeks, and in 474 as present at Chryse; while Hera and Athene are watching the strife in the assembly, the latter descending to Troy and returning to Olympos μετὰ δαίμονας ἄλλους. The second is found in ἐκ τοῖο 493, which refers back, not to the day indicated in the preceding lines, as we should expect, but to the interview between Thetis and her son which ended in 424, and since which at least one night, and apparently several, have passed.