Commentary on line 2
Note the suspicious trochaic caesura in the 4th foot. pedi/oio, along the plain, as usual; not a partitive gen. after ἔνθα. ἰθύειν is the regular word for charging, 4.507, 11.552, etc., the parallel form ἰθύνειν being used for the transitive. The mid. ἰθύνεσθαι recurs only Od. 5.270, Od. 22.8. i)qunome/nwn is gen. abs., the subject being easily supplied from the first line; a)llh/lwn is doubtless the gen. usual after verbs of aiming (H. G. 151 c), and is not in agreement with the participle. Cf. 13.499.
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