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[400] τῶν is generally taken as dependent on μέτα, casting lots amid them. So Ar. understood it. This constr., however, is not Homeric or even poetical; see note on 11.51. We can take the gen. better as partitive; and then we might write “μεταπαλλόμενος”, of them, by casting lots among us, I was chosen. Cf. “μεταφρασόμεσθα,” 1.140, we will consider among ourselves, for this sense of “μετα-” in comp. — Schol. T mentions a variant “τοῖσι δὲ πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης λάχον”, which needlessly accentuates the obvious but trifling difficulty that if Hermes' persona is now “πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης” (348) he cannot have been so ten years before when Achilles sailed — and indeed must have been a child.

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

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