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[273] “τὰ δὲ πολλὰ κτλ.” ‘and they, many as they were, &c.’ We must not take “τὰ πολλά” together in the sense of ‘most of them,’ as in later Greek. Cp. 17. 537 “τὰ δὲ πολλὰ κατάνεται”. Note however that “πάντα” is not used here (as it is in l. 256), because two of the spears were not wholly without effect.

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