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[150] τίς πόθεν εἰς ἀνδρῶν, also Od. 1.170; for similar instances of the biending of two questions into one cf. Eur. Hel. 86 “τίς πόθεν”, Eur. El. 779, Soph. Phil. 243 “τίνι στόλωι . . πόθεν πλέων” Soph. Phil., 1090 “τοῦποτε τεύξομαι σιτονόμου μέλεος πόθεν ἐλπίδος” (and Jebb's note on 220). It is possible that πόθεν means not ‘from what place?’ but ‘of what father?’

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

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