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εἴ τί οἱ. An echo of the prayer in Il. i. 37 seq.; for similar echoes cf. φίλον ἦν (§ 4) and Il. ii. 116, 88. 1 and Il. xxiv. 631.


Bacchylides (iii. 55) makes Zeus send the rain.


The aversion to war is characteristic of H. Cf. v. 97. 3 and viii. 3. 1.

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