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[73] κλέα ἀνδρῶν. So in Il.9. 186 foll. Achilles is found with his lyre, “τῇ γε θυμὸν ἔτερπεν, ἄειδε δ᾽ ἄρα κλέα ἀνδρῶν”. These ‘stories,’ which were sung by the heroes themselves at the period represented by the Iliad, are in the Odyssey the property of the professional minstrel.

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