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[306] This line seems to be wrongly adapted from 11.675, where “ἐν πρώτοισι” has its regular meaning, ‘among the foremost of his own side’; here it must mean among the foremost of the enemy (“ἐν προβάτοισι” van Herw.!). The phrase is in fact used by force of habit without any more definite sense than ‘fall like a hero.’ It has also been remarked that the very martial simile is hardly suitably followed by the ‘almost elegiac’ speech to Glaukos. It is possible that the two passages beginning “αὐτίκα δέ” (294-308, and 309-29) are alternative readings.

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

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