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[692] Comparing 2.620 ff. we find that of the four leaders of the Epeians there named not one occurs here; while Meges is made leader of the Dulichians. So with the next line; Medon in the Catalogue leads the forces of Philoktetes (2.716-28), while Podarkes (2.695-706) has succeeded to those of Protesilaos from a different though neighbouring region, including Phylake, here the home of Medon.

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

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