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[53] σχεδόν here is not very easy to explain; Monro takes it to mean right over, at a bound, comparing “σχέδιος” and “αὐτοσχέδιος”, immediate, off-hand. Similarly “παρασχεδόν” in Ap. Rhod.i. 698 = continuo. Perhaps it may mean in order, in serried ranks, lit. ‘holding on’ to one another; one here or there might cross, but only to be separated from the main body, and attacked in detail. This is closer to the sense of near, which is elsewhere universal in Homer. In this case it will go with both verbs.

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

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