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[161] ἔκ τε: Bekk. conj. “ἐκ δέ”, but this is probably a case of the primitive use of “τε .. τε” to express mere correlation, not conjunction, precisely as in the similar sentence in 1.81, q.v. It might be referred also to the gnomic use of “τε”, H. G. § 332, but it is hardly possible to separate the “τε” in the apodosis from that in the protasis. The conjunction of the present τελεῖ with the gnomic aor. ἀπέτισαν is not unnatural. Zen. cannot of course have read “τελέσει” for “τελεῖ” (see App. Crit.) as the context stands; possibly he only meant to explain that “τελεῖ” is a fut. But the contracted form is later and suspicious. The subject to “ἀπέτισαν” is general, ‘transgressors’; but Zen. read “τίσουσιν”, and made it refer to the Trojans.

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

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