Commentary on line 609
*gnw/menai o(/c, a case where the rel. pronoun comes very near the indirect interrogative, cf. on 7.171. *pefeu/goi, this thematic perf. opt. is very rare (see note on 8.270), and it is a question if we should not read πεφεύγει in such a question MSS. hardly count. But we may perhaps see a special vividness in the opt., which expresses the mere possibility only of any particular man having survived: to discover the man who might have escaped and him who had fallen.
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