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[487] See 6.150 for possible constructions of the passage. We may here regard 489 as supplying a very practical apodosis to the “εἰ”-clause, as in 7.242. So Nikanor suggests, “ἢ καὶ κομματικὸν ἀπέλιπε τὸν λόγον ἐπίτηδες ὁ ποιητής, τῆς θεοῦ διὰ τῶν ἔργων τὸ λεῖπον ἀναπληρωσάσης”. For the gen. πολέμοιο, to learn about war, see H. G. § 151 d.

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

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