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[214] The use of the infin. ἄημεναι is far from clear. The sense seems to require “ἀήμενοι”, which is actually found in The Lex. infin. can hardly be defended by phrases like “βῆ ἰέναι, ὦρτο πέτεσθαι”, etc., where the infin. represents the beginning of an action (stepped to go, started to fly, etc.), cf. Od. 3.176 “ὦρτο δ᾽ ἐπὶ λιγὺς οὖρος ἀήμεναι”. We can only understand they came to the sea so as to blow upon it.

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

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