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[821] κῦρε, to judge from the use of the word, can only mean kept lighting on his neck, i.e. kept touching him without wounding him. Diomedes accordingly fulfils the conditions of 805, and duly receives the promised sword. The usual translation is kept aiming at, or trying to touch (conative imperf.). In that case there is obviously no reason for the award of the sword in 824-25, which lines Ar. and Aph.accordingly athetized; and “ἀέθλια ἶσ᾽ ἀνελέσθαι” in 823 gives justification for this course. The whole narrative is as self-contradictory as it is obscure. — ἀκωκ̂ηι, the better attested “ἀκωκήν” involves an unheard-of constr. of “κύρειν”.

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

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