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[14] There is an evident change of thought here; the line begins as though it were to be “πολλοὶ δ᾽ Ἀργείων δάμεν”, and then, as in Od. 4.495πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ τῶν γε δάμεν, πολλοὶ δὲ λίποντο”, the thought of those who fell brings up that of the large number who, unlike the Trojan chiefs, survived.

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