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[423] 423-6. Zenodotos rejected these lines, writing instead ““αὐτὴ δ᾽ ἀντίον ἷζεν Ἀλεξάνδροιο ἄνακτος””: “ἀπρεπὲς γὰρ αὐτῶι ἐφαίνετο τὸ τῆι Ἑλένηι τὴν Ἀφροδίτην δίφρον βαστάζειν. ἐπιλέλησται δὲ ὅτι γραῒ εἴκασται, καὶ ταύτηι τῆι μορφῆι τὰ προσήκοντα ἐπιτηδεύει”, Ariston. Cobet has an amusing chapter on the question of propriety as it appeared to the Alexandrian critics, Misc. Crit. 225-39. (Schol. T quotes Od. 19.34, where Athene carries a lamp for Odysseus.) Römer suggests that Zen. may have considered that Aphrodite, being disguised as an “ἀμφίπολος”, must have gone off with the rest in 422.

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