[56] Even this thing thou sayest might be so, if indeed ye gods will set like price on Achilles as on Hector. The idea of placing the son of the woman on the same footing as the son of the goddess implies a reductio ad absurdum of Apollo's whole argument. Cf. Od. 15.435 “εἴη κεν καὶ τοῦτ᾽, εἴ μοι ἐθέλοιτέ γε, κτλ”.