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[164] τεθναίης ἤ, i.e. I pray that you may lie dead if you do not slay. Or the opt. may be concessive, ‘you may lie dead for all I care.’ See M. and T. p. 383. The alternative explanation, ‘if you do not kill him, he will kill you,’ is obviously absurd.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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