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[177] ἔγχεϊ μακρῶι. Teukros is therefore represented here as a heavy-armed warrior, whereas elsewhere he is an archer, 12.372, 15.440, cf. 472, 8.266, etc.; while he is praised in both capacities in 314. For a somewhat similar difficulty see note on 2.528. These small inconsistencies, which affect only the picture which the poet has before his eyes, are not sufficient to form a ground for wide-reaching dissection of the poems.

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

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