Note 130 — Second Part. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Homer, Iliad XI. 233.
(κἀκείνου) Ἀτρείδης μὲν ἅμαρτε, παραὶ δέ οἱ ἐτράπετ’ἔγχος· αἰχμὴ δ’ἐξεσύθη παρὰ νείατον ἀνθερεῶνα.
(Now him Atreides missed, and his spear was turned aside past him, and the point sped rushing past the very edge of his chin). Similarly Diogenes according to Diogenes Laertius’(VI. 53.) report parodied the Homeric verse (Iliad X. 282): “No sleeper must drive a spear through your back,” as he woke a handsome youth, who lay incautiously asleep.