Persons to whom it might have been applied.
2. Besides the names to which Homer applies the phrase, he employs a great number of names, of persons having high or the very highest rank, which possess exactly the same metrical value as one or another of the six names above quoted; but yet to none of these does he at any time give the title of ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν. Of such names I have observed the following: and I exclude from the list the merely local characters of the Odyssey, and all persons in inferior station.
(1) Of the same metrical value with Eumelus:
Patroclus.
Pheidippus.
Euneus.
Eudorus.
Euphemus.
Ægisthus.
Admetus.
Amphius.
Euphorbus.
And of the dead,
Isandros.
Adrestus.
(2) Of the same metrical value with Augeias, Euphetes, Æneas, Anchises:
Antenor.
Sarpedon.
Pyræchmes.
Hercules (Heracles).
Eurystheus.
(3) Of the same metrical value with Agamemnon: