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[50] ἔβαν κοίλας ἐπὶ νῆας. Aristarchus objected that the Greeks were already at the ships, where they had brought the body of Achilles (l. 43 “ἐπὶ νῆας”). The answer seems to be that in the panic now described the Greeks rushed to their ships with the view of flight (“φόβος”, l. 57): cp. Il.2. 150νῆας ἔπ᾽ ἐσσεύοντο”.

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