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[206] αι<*>ρ́ησει καὶ ἐσόψεται, get thee in his power and set eyes on thee, a perfectly natural and simple expression. It has caused gratuitous offence to commentators, who see in it a hysteron proteron (?) and think that “αἱρήσει” cannot be used of one who puts himself in his enemies' power. Hence many of them adopt Bothe's tasteless conj. “ἀθρήσει”, which gives a meaningless tautology or rather anti-climax.

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

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