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[250] 250 = 11.433. 244-50 were bracketed by Bekker; a modern poet would certainly not have added them after the fine climax in 243, but in matters such as this modern taste is not decisive; a modern poet would have closed the Agamemnon with the murder. The sudden change of thought with asyndeton in 244 is softened by the emphatic σύ, which takes up again the “τύνη” of 237, and the unjust and violent reproach is not inconsistent with the character of Hector.

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

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