Note 550 — BOOK THE SEVENTEENTH.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 550: (return) “The evil here spoken of, and of which a choice is presented to Menelaus, are loss of both the body and the armour of Patroclus, or of either separately. The first alternative he is resolved on guarding against by summoning Ajax to his aid; of the last two, he prefers the abandonment of the arms, i.e. σύλη, spoliation of the corpse, to ἀείκεια, its disfigurement.”—Kennedy.