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[556] 556-57 “ἀθετοῦνται, ὅτι ἀνάρμοστοι τῶι προσώπωι αἱ εὐχαὶ καὶ ἐπαυτόφωρος ἡ ὑπόκρισις” (their insincerity is palpable). The An.similar words of Chryses in 1.18-19 gave rise to the same question, ‘how can he thus pray against his own side?’ A modern reader will be more in sympathy with the poet than with the Alexandrine critic. The chief ground of objection to the lines lies perhaps in the metrical weakness of 557.

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

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