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[285] See crit. note. Though the grounds of rejection given there, on the authority of Aristarchus, may be insufficient, it should be noticed that l. 285 (cp. Od.2. 82) does not harmonise with l. 282, and still less does l. 286. The story of Anticlus may have been introduced from the cyclic epic of the “Ἰλίου πέρσις”. Cp. Schol. H. “ὁ Ἄντικλος ἐκ τοῦ κύκλου”. The reference to “Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη” does not agree well with l. 275, nor “τόφρα δ᾽ ἔχε” with “ἔσχεθεν” l. 284. Nitzsch would retain the lines on the ground that the words “σάωσε δὲ πάντας Ἀχαιούς” are necessary as the description of the great achievement for which the hearer is prepared by “ἀλλ᾽ οἷον τόδ᾽ ἔρεξε”. Bekker (Homerisch. Blätt. 285) conjectures “Ἄντικλος δέ σ᾽ ἔτ᾽ οἶος”, as a possible reconcilement of the statements, but he does not accept the lines.

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

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