Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 23 (Ψ）, line 731

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[731] The exact meaning of ἐν γόνυ γνάμψεν can only be guessed. It is evidently a technical term. Possibly finding the ‘great’ Aias too heavy to lift off the ground, Odysseus crooks his knee round his leg, and so succeeds in throwing him on his side. On the whole the account is far more intelligible than that of a modern wrestling match would be to an ordinary reader. Leptines read “ἕν” for “ἐν”, but this was rejected in antiquity on the ground that the proper word would be “ἕτερον”.

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

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