[129] τόσσον πλέας: according to 8.562 f., there were 50,000 Trojans and allies. For the numbers of the Achaeans, see on v. 494 ff. For the form “πλέας” (“πλέονας”), cf. “πλέες Λ” 395, and see § 22 h. This form is found also in an Aeolic inscription of Mitylene.
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