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[154] For ‘distant Paionia’ see 2.848-50 where Asteropaios is not mentioned among the leaders — though by a strict reckoning of time eleven days take us back beyond the point at which the Catalogue is inserted, as the scholia point out. To remedy this defect a line was inserted (“ἐν πολλαῖς τῶν Ἰλιάδων” Sch. T, “ἐν τῆι κατ᾽ Εὐριπίδην” Amm.by Blass's certain conj.) after 2.848 (q.v.) “Πηλεγόνος θ᾽ υἱὸς περιδέξιος Ἀστεροπαῖος”. Another difference is that in the Catalogue the Paionians are archers, “ἀγκυλότοξοι”, not spearmen (δολιχεγχέες only here); but in 4.533 “δολίχ᾽ ἔγχεα χερσὶν ἔχοντες” isused of Thrakians.

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

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