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[161] Mr. Auden (C. R. x. 107) calls attention to the accurate observation embodied in this line, quoting Selous Big Game Shooting (Badminton Library) i. 327 ‘A single large male lion will kill a heavy ox or a buffalo cow without using his teeth at all, by breaking its neck, or rather causing the frightened beast to break its own neck’ in the manner there described. So also 11.175.

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

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