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[301] 301-03 = 200-02; 304-06 = 205-07. The last three lines were athetized by Zen. and Ar. on the ground that they were not suitable in speaking to Zeus, as the possession of the “κεστὸς ἱμάς” made any excuses needless. ‘And perhaps Zeus might have taken her at her word and urged her to go; at all events (MS. “οὖν”, for “γοῦν”?) she should not run the risk of it,’ Schol. A. It is more likely that the Alexandrian critics found an “ἀπρεπές” in the use of the expression to one of the other sex. But its very suggestiveness is in its favour.

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

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