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[303] This sudden change from oratio obliqua to recta is very strange, the only parallel in H. being 23.855, a very weak authority. There seems to be something wrong about the present passage, as 308-9 refer apparently to siege operations, and should be addressed rather to the “πεζοί” than the “ἱππῆες”. The whole passage 297-310 is weak and out of place, and is one of the numerous instances where inopportune tactical lucubrations are put into Nestor's mouth, doubtless under Athenian (Peisistratean) influence; see on 2.362. The advice in 304-5 recalls 17.357-9, where it is given to foot-soldiers.

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

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