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[155] κέλευε is best taken, with Hentze, absolutely, was supreme over them, as “ταμίης πολέμοιο”. Cf. the use of “κελεύων” in 11.65, 13.91. The ordinary explana tion, though Zeus enthroned on high had bidden them (to fight', is unsatisfactory, because it requires us to take “ἥμενος ὕψι” as a standing epithet = “ὑψίζυγος”, which it can hardly be (cf. Od. 16.264 “ὕψί περ ἐν νεφέεσσι καθημένω”); and also because Zeus had not commanded them to fight one another.

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

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