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[237] For another (and later?) legend of Kastor and Polydeukes see Od. 11.300 sqq., the only other place where they are mentioned in H. That passage is clearly inconsistent with 243-4, as they are said to have shared immortality after death by alternate days. The synizesis in Πολυδεύκεα is suspicious; perhaps the variant “Πολυδεύκην” is right. Zen. explained the absence of the brothers from Troy by supposing that they had been left as regents of Greece (“διοικητὰς τῆς Ἑλλάδος” Schol. T'. But their death was related in the Kypria.

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

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