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[183] ‘In very truth, many were the sons of the Achaeans under your command, it now appears [“ῥα”],’ is a literal rendering; but the English idiom requires, ‘many are the sons of the Achaeans under your command, I now see.’ The Greek and the English take different points of view: the Greek suggests, ‘I was formerly somewhat mistaken in my view; it now appears [“ἄρα”] that all the time certain facts were true’ (and still continue so); the English lays emphasis on the present situation only, implying what the Greek states, just as the Greek implies what the English states. Compare similar examples, I 316, II 33, 60, etc.

δεδμήατο, § 142, § 4, a: 188.

Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.

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