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[576] ἐλέτην, in accordance with Homeric usage, can only mean ‘slew.’ In 13.658 (q.v.) this same Pylaimenes is alive, and weeping at the bier of his son. This inconsistency has caused infinite searching of heart to critics for hundreds of years. But it is really just such a slip as is often made even by authors who write; in works which must at first have been recorded as well as conceived by the brain alone, it is only strange that more such errors are not found.
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