Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 20 (Υ）, line 26

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[26] οἶος, without interference of the gods. Zeus seems to forget that Achilles will rather gain than lose by such intervention, the Greek gods being the more powerful. μαχεῖται, a contracted form of the future not elsewhere found in H. It is wiser to accept it as evidence of lateness than to read “μάχηται” with van L.

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

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