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[21] ἠλάστεον, see note on 12.163. ‘“ἤλυσσον”?’ PallisA.: but that word seems too strong: see 22.70. Schol. T and Eust. say “προσγράφουσί τινες ‘ πρίν γ᾽ ὅτε δή σ᾽ ἀπέλυσα πεδῶν ῾ηεψνε: “ποδῶν” μσς.᾿, μυδροὺς δ᾽ ἐνὶ Τροίηι
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’ καὶ δείκνυνται, φασίν, ὑπὸ τῶν περιηγητῶν οἱ τοιοῦτοι μύδροι, οὓς ἀνωτέρω ἄκμονας εἶπεν”. The lines will not fit into our text; if they ever stood there, it must have been in place of 22-30. Ludwich suggests that they may merely have been copied into the margin of some archetype from a lost Epic, by way of illustration. They probably were meant to explain the presence of some meteoric stones in the Troad. παρασταδόν, “παραστάντες”, cf. “ἀποσταδόν”Eur. Troad., 556; H. G. § 401.

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

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