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[357] ἐφέπειν, to control, manage, as we say, with the additional connotation of ‘driving,’ the enemy. See note on 11.496. “ἐφέπειν” is often used in later Greek of a general ‘controlling’ his own men, but the idea of hostility is generally connoted in H., and the parallelism of “πᾶσι μάχεσθαι” indicates that the same is the case here; otherwise it would be possible to translate it is hard for me to command so great an army and (at the same time) to fight with all the enemy.

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

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