Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 13 (Ν）, line 684

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[684] ζαχρηεῖς, see notes on 5.525, 12.347. The meaning evidently is that less care had been taken with the wall where the Greeks and their chariots were best able to take care of themselves. But the idea of fighting in chariots between the wall and the ships is equally absurd, whether used of Greeks or Trojans.

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

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