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[291] 291-2 are no doubt interpolated here from 377-8 where they are quite in place. ἑτέροισι evidently implies a general combat between the two armies, and is not consistent with the single combat, which is never put forward as intended to have any decisive result upon the course of the war. Nor is there, either before or afterwards, any suggestion that the duel is to be renewed. 293 also was justly athetized by Aristarchos, as a weak repetition from 282. The speech runs quite smoothly when the three lines are omitted.

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

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