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[320] This line, with the Attic use of the article to express a class, has all the appearance of a late gnomic interpolation. It has a specious resemblance to the preceding lines, but is no more than a pointless generality here, terribly weakening the speech. Achilles has no thought for anything but the conduct of Agamemnon, with which this commonplace has nothing whatever to do. Hence most edd. bracket it, Bekker condemning the preceding couplet also. Bentley's “λάγχαν̓” for κάτθαν̓ is ingenious but most improbable. 24.45 is a very similar instance of gnomic interpolation.

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

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