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[420] 420-4 were athetized by Aristarchos, not without good reason, as they are quite unsuited to the character of Iris, who always appears as a mere messenger. Of course the case against 423-4 is much stronger than against the first three lines. The last couplet is quite in the spirit of the unmannerly rudeness of the gods in the Theomachy in “Φ”, and in sharp contrast with the courteous tone of Iris in 15.200-4, where again she speaks on her own account.

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

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