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[489] υἱός as an iambus, see 17.575. In the older Attic inscriptions “ὑός” and “υἱός” are used indifferently; in the later “ὑός” is the regular form, the “ι” becoming semivocalic and then falling out; G. Meyer Gr. § 130. The synizesis of “Πηλέως” or “Πηλέος” is not Homeric.

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