Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 19 (Τ）, line 141

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[141] χειζός (as 195), really ‘the day before yesterday,’ though late at night. Such an inconsistency is too slight a matter to bear the theories that have been raised upon it (e.g. that the heroic Greeks began to reckon the day from sunset; or that, as Bergk argues, before the interpolation of the Shield, which required a night for its manufacture, Achilles killed Hector on the very day of Patroklos' death). The word is probably no more than a piece of carelessness on the interpolator's part.

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

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