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[278] οὐχ ὁμοίης = ‘very different’ (from common men); litotes, cf. 5.441; “non simili poena,Aen. i. 136 . It has been objected, with force, to this line and the next that they are a pointless generality here, as Achilles is just as much a “σκηπτοῦχος βασιλεύς” as Agamemnon; the real ground for his yielding is given by 281. For the form ἔμμορε see H. G. § 23 (2).

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