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[101] ἡγεῖτο is clearly right, not the vulg. “ἡγήσατ᾽”: compare the preceding imperfects “εἵπετο” and “ἦρχε”. The desire to avoid the legitimate hiatus in the main caesura has frequently led to corruptions of this sort, as Ahrens has pointed out.

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