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[795] It might have been supposed that Athene had healed the wound in 122, but there is no explicit inconsistency between that passage and the present. See 16.528; when a god miraculously heals a would we are told so at length. Many critics, however, have made this supposed ‘contradiction’ a fulcrum for breaking up this book. For the double acc. after βάλε cf. 361, 8.405, 24.421.

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