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κούρω. The use of the dual here is not idiomatic but irrational; it is of course due to the effect of “δύω” immediately following, as in inf. 48. In Il.4. 453 we find “ποταμοὶ ῥέοντες . . συμβάλλετον ὕδωρ”, but there such rivers only are specified as come down from two sides into a valley and thus are naturally parted into two groups. In Il.9. 182, 192, 196“τὼ δὲ βάτην”, etc., there is a loose use of the dual, as the personages alluded to are Ajax, Odysseus, Phoenix, and two heralds; yet even there it serves to mark off the two leading figures, Ajax and Odysseus, from the rest, cp. Od.9. 90.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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