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[711] ἀλλ́ηλων seems to be governed by “λαβέτην”, as though “λαβέσθην”. If it be taken with “ἀγκάς” there is no object left for “λαβέτην”. For ἀγκάς Fick would read “ἄγκασε”, like “κύκλοσε”, cf. “ἄγκαθεν”, Aisch. Eum. 80.But for the short -“ας” in 14.346 we should be justified in regarding the word as an acc. plur. (so Hesych.) and making it the object of “λαβέτην”, exactly our caught hold of one another. As it is perhaps we should read “ἀλλήλους” with

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

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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 80
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