Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 16 (Π）, line 849

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[849] The singular ἔκτανεν shews that μοῖρα and Λητοῦς υἱός are to be joined in a sort of hendiadys, ‘fate by the hand of Apollo’; compare “Ζεὺς καὶ Ἀπόλλων” above. There is therefore no reason to take offence at τρίτος in the next line. But many critics, from Heyne onwards, have suspected 849-50 as mere repetition. The latter at least could be well spared.

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

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