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[667] The repetition of the last words of Achilles' speech is evidently meant to be ironical, as though the words were, so to speak, in inverted commas. ἆσσον ἴτω, come on, in hostile sense. See on 15.105.

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

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