Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 10 (Κ）, line 13

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[13] The asyndeton is very harsh; it can be explained only by taking αὐλῶν συρίγγων as virtually a compound word = flute-pipes, on the analogy of “ἴρηξ κίρκος”, etc. Some edd. reject the line, but this is arbitrary. σύριγγες recur only in 18.526 (and Hymn. Merc. 512), αὐλοί in 18.495, and are an evident anachronism. The reference is clearly to the scene in the Trojan camp at the end of “Θ”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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