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[6] ἐξ οὗ may refer to the preceding line, ‘the will of Zeus was being fulfilled from the time when’ (so Ar.); or better, to “ἄειδε” in the first line, ‘take up the song from the point when,’ as in Od. 8.500 “φαῖνε δ᾽ ἀοιδήν, ἔνθεν ἑλών, ὡς οἱ μέν, κτλ.” The extraordinary variant “διὰ στήτην” (“ἐρίσαντο”) was explained to mean ‘on account of a woman’ (!)

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

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