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[359] The apodosis is the aor. “ὁμάδησαν”, rather than the impf. “ἐπαύετο”, which is logically subordinate: ‘when he had eaten, with the pausing of the singer the noise of the Suitors began.’ For the succession of tenses compare Il.1. 193-4 “ἧος ὥρμαινε . . . ἕλκετο δὲ . . . ἦλθε δ᾽ Ἀθήνη”.

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