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[736] As Odysseus had put his enemy fairly on his back, and himself had only fallen with him on his side, it might have been supposed that he was conqueror. Nor is it easy to guess how the ‘12-ox’ tripod and ‘4-ox’ woman were to be equally divided. “ἀέθλια δ᾽ ἶσ᾽, ἄεθλα δὲ ϝῖσ᾽” Bentley.

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