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[698] The following passage (to 711) is athetized by Payne Knight and others, probably rightly, as the idea of an actual assault upon the wall is quite unprepared, and seems hardly consistent with the attitude of Hector in 713. There are several lines which appear elsewhere and may be borrowed; 698 = 21.544; 699 = 11.180 (where, however, see note); 703, cf. 5.437; 705-06 = 5.438-39; 710-11 = 5.443-44. The passage in E describing Diomedes' repulse by Apollo was evidently before the poet of these lines. Compare also the similar wording of 20.445-48.

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

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