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[307] Strabo and the scholia say that the variant “πάντεσσιν” (see above) was invented to flatter the Romans. It is significant of the honesty of the tradition that no trace of it should appear in the MSS. This famous prophecy, which is repeated in a similar form in Hymn. Ven. 197, is of course the foundation of the legend of Virgil's Aeneid, and is translated there (iii. 97-98), “hic domus Aencae cunctis dominabitur oris et nati natorum et qui nascentur ab illis.” Virgil therefore read γένωνται, not “λίπωνται”.

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

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