Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 13 (Ν）, line 721

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[721] It is quite unlike Homer to make the sudden change of the course of battle, even to ‘a sorry repulse from ships and huts’ (723), depend not upon the doughty deeds of individual heroes, but solely on the effect of a body of archers concealed in the rear. Of such soldiers H. always speaks in a slighting tone, and nowhere else do they exercise the least influence on the course of a fight.

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

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