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[714] πεδίον μετεκίαθον, a strange phrase, perhaps to be compared with 496 “ἔφεπε κλονέων πεδίον”, ‘when they had chased the plain,’ i.e. every warrior in it. This is not satisfactory, but neither is the alternative, ‘when they had passed over’ the plain; for this sense can hardly be got out of “μετεκίαθον”, and the words are out of place and very weak after the mention of the beginning of the siege. Bentley ingeniously read “ἄλλο τε”, with a comma after “μεμαῶτες” and a colon after “μετεκίαθον”.

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

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