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[498] ἀρετή, majesty, supremacy in the widest sense. This word, like the correlative adj. “ἀγαθός”, does not in H. imply moral excellence absolutely (virtue) except so far as implied by the obligations of birth and power.

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

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