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[128] λαοσσόος (from “συ”-, root of “σεύω”, see on 11.549), urger of armies, is used also of Apollo, 20.79, Amphiaraos, Od. 15.244, and Ares, 17.398. For the form cf. “δορυσσόος”, Hes. Scut. 54, etc., and “ἱπποσόα” of Artemis, Pind. O. iii. 26, “ἱπποσόας Ἰόλαος” Pind. I. v.(iv.) 32. In οἱ γὰρ ἄριστοι we seem to have a case of the developed article; but we may perhaps take it in a weak deictic sense, ‘there stood the best picked men,’ or read with Monro “οἳ γὰρ ἄριστοι” (sc. “ἦσαν”).

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

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    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 54
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