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[369] Observe the bitter emphasis with which Achilles repeatedly forces the name Ἀτρεΐδης into the most emphatic place, ll. 332, 339, 341, in significant contrast with Agamemnon himself, who never utters Achilles's name from 115 to 161.

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

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