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[48] νέεσθαι is best taken with “πέμψειν”, οὐκ ἐθέλοντα standing by itself as in 36. But this is one of the few cases in which “νέεσθαι” means simply go, and has lost the true Homeric sense return home (happily) which is equally marked in the cognate “νόστος”. Acc. to van L. the only other cases are 23.51 (see note), Od. 4.8, Od. 14.261 (= Od. 17.430), 498, Od. 18.186 (= Od. 22.434, 496), Od. 22.484, out of more than 100 places. So also Hes. Opp. 237.

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

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