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[439] πελώρια, prodigious; the epithet is applied even to heroes who are not in the first rank (e.g. 5.842), and implies only the belief in the greater stature of the heroic age as compared with “οἷοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν”.

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

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