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[495] This line is perhaps an interpolation, as Aristarchus thought, from Il.2. 56.We expect to be told what this dream was, what it said, &c. In any case “λίην γὰρ κτλ.” is the real beginning of the speech, ‘since we are so far &c.’ But a form of address, such as “κλῦτε φίλοι”, cannot well be dispensed with.

504-506. These lines were rejected by ancient critics. They are weak in themselves and spoil the preceding story, the point of which is that it hints at the need of a cloak without directly asking for one.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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