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Cf. the struggle over the body of Patroclus, Il. xvii. 274 f.

παρεγένοντο: no doubt by the Eastern Gate, left undefended, in rear of the Spartans. They may also have been on the heights above the pass; cf. Liv. xxxvi. 18 ‘ni Porcius ab iugo Callidromi . . . super eminentem castris collem apparuisset’.

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