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[515] “ἀθετεῖται, ὅτι οὐκ ἀναγκαία ἡ ἐξαρίθμησις: μειοῖ γὰρ” (it degrades the leech) “εἰ μόνον ἰοὺς ἐκτάμνειν καὶ φαρμακεύειν ο<*>δεν. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης προηθέτει: Ζηνόδοτος δὲ οὐδὲ ἔγραφεν”. This objection, though approved by most modern edd., hardly seems sufficient to condemn the line, which fairly represents the primitive stage of Homeric medicine.

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

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