Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 18 (Σ）, line 591

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[591] A few critics, ancient and modern, have been scandalized that a god should imitate a mortal's work — though this is evidently not involved in the words. Some went so far as to put a full stop at the end of 590, and read “οἶον” for οἷον, ‘the only thing ever made like it was the dancing-floor of Daidalos.’ For the nature of this dancing-floor or labyrinth see App. I. §§ 21-22.

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

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