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[240] ἀέκοντα, because before his time. The only other instance in H. of a divine interference with the course of natural phenomena is in Od. 23.243 (“Ἀθήνη”) “νύκτα μὲν ἐν περάτηι δολιχὴν σχέθεν κτλ”. So ends the eventful day which began with It A. is now so overburdened with an accumulation of events through the growth of the poem that one can hardly think of this ending as ‘premature’ without a smile.

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

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