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[368] 368-371,=1. 238-241. Here a double interpolation has taken place. The two lines — “ τῶ κέν οἱ τύμβον μὲν ἐποίησαν Παναχαιοί,
ἠδέ κε καὶ παιδὶ μέγα κλέος ἤρατ᾽ ὀπίσσω

” are wanting here in most good MSS., and therefore probably come from 1. 239-240. On the other hand the line “ἠὲ φίλων ἐν χερσίν κ.τ.λ.” cannot stand with those lines, since they refer to death before Troy: hence it is an interpolation in 1. 238, from 14. 368. Thus the only repetition is 14. 371 = 1. 241—probably an epic commonplace.

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