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[207] It is not clear whether μ᾽ represents “με” or “μοι”. In favour of the former is the (rather doubtful) phrase in 9.58 “πεπνυμένα βάζεις Ἀργείων βασιλῆας”, and the constr. of “εἰπεῖν” with acc. of the person addressed, 12.60, 17.237, etc.; while the analogy of “λέγειν τινά τι”, to say something of a person, is common from Herodotos onwards. On the other hand, the elision of “μοι” may be supported by 6.165, 9.673, 10.544, 13.481, 17.100, and cf. on 1.170. We may therefore choose between ‘ye said of me,’ and ‘ye said to me.’ πέφανται, cf. 1.734“φάνη μέγα ἔργον Ἄρηος,” 12.416 “μέγα δέ σφισι φαίνετο ἔργον”.

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

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