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[302] In εἰ δ᾽ ἄγε the “εἰ” is clearly interjectional, as in 9.46 “εἰ δὲ .. φευγόντων”. Lange calls it an ‘adhibitive’ particle, by which the speaker appropriates, as by the ‘prohibitive’ “μή” he puts away, a thought, supposition, or, as here, command. Nikanor, followed by van L., however, separates the “εἰ” here from “εἰ”, if, writing “εἶ” (“εἶα”) for “εἰ δ᾽”; cf. Lat. eia age. H. G. § 320. For the “δ᾽” see on 340.

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

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