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[545] This line was athetized by Zen. and omitted by others — or according to Ludwich's probable restoration of the corrupt Schol. T, was athetized by Ar. and omitted by Zen. and others. The rejection must have extended to 546; the couplet is evidently an interpolation intended to explain how Athene comes to contravene the commands of Zeus in “Θ”. There is no change whatever in the designs of Zeus; in 593 he continues to help the Trojans, and he is steadily carrying out his purpose of suffering the Achaians to be again driven to the ships. Besides, he is not in heaven but on Ida. 546 looks like a reminiscence of Od. 7.263 “ἢ καὶ νόος ἐτράπετ᾽ αὐτῆς”, where “αὐτῆς” has its full sense, ‘her own mind,’ which is not the case here. The phrase “νόον τρέπειν” occurs twice again in Od. (Od. 3.147, Od. 19.479) but not elsewhere in

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

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