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[277] Aristarchus read “Πηλείδἤθελ᾽”, or, as we should write it, “Πηλείδη ἔθελ᾽”, on the ground that “ἐθέλειν” is the only Homeric form. But it is better to admit the possibility of a single appearance of a form so common in later Greek than to have recourse to an unparalleled crasis, rendered the harsher by the slight pause after “Πηλεΐδη”. (See H. G. § 378.)

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