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[707] οἱ δέ, the Epeians, who make a raid to recover the booty taken from them. Many commentators have strangely fancied that this is the beginning of the war in which the fight already mentioned (671-6) was an incident. This leads to hopeless and needless confusion.

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

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