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[7] ἔριδα προφέρονται, apparently our ‘offer battle,’ or bring strife; so Od. 8.210; cf. Od. 6.92, and 11.529 “ἔριδα προβαλόντες”: see also 5.506, 10.479. ἠέριαι, in early morning, 1.497, Od. 9.52, though the significance of the epithet here is not very clear. Virg. Georg. i. 375 seems to have thought, perhaps rightly, that it meant ‘flying high in the air’; “aeriae fugere grues.”

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

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