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[192] A famous shield of Nestor is as little known elsewhere to the Iliad as a divine breastplate of Diomedes. As the story now stands, the latter must have belonged to Glaukos, with whom Diomedes had exchanged armour, and could not have failed to obtain mention in 6.236; while there is no allusion to the former in the passage which refers to the arms which Nestor may be presumed to have taken from Ereuthalion, 7.146-55. Besides, the effect anticipated from the capture of these two pieces of armour seems quite disproportionate. νῦν in 192 is a mere metrical makeshift; for the phrase see Od. 8.74. For the κανόνες of the shield see App. B, i. 1.

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