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[586] ἔτρεσε, ran away, as usual. Note the variant “ἀλλὰ παρέτρεσε. κακόν”, mischief to the herd; not as some have taken it, ‘conscious of having done wrong. ’ Such a feeling is hardly to be looked for in wild beasts. This, however, seems to have been Virgil's idea in his imitation of the passage, Aen. xi. 809-819 “conscius audacis facti.” ἀμφὶ βόεσσι, Zen. “ἀμφὶ οἷ αὐτῶι”, to go with “ἀολλισθήμεναι”. This is not the Homeric order of words.

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

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