Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 9 (Ι）, line 501

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[501] This is the only place in H. where “λίσσεσθαι” is applied to prayer made by men to gods; elsewhere it is always used of prayers between man and man, or, rarely, between god and god (1.394, 502, etc.). In later Greek (Hymn. Ven. 184, Pind. O. xii. 1, etc.) it is common enough in the sense of praying to the gods — again an instance of a late use in this book. Of course the use here is influenced by the need of an introduction for the word “λιταί” in the next line.

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

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