Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 16 (Π）, line 225

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[225] “οὐδέ τις κ.τ.λ.”; the meaning of this sentence is clear though not very exactly expressed; ‘he allowed no man to drink from it, and himself used it only for libations to Zeus.’ The sentence starts as though it were to be ‘none other drank from it, whether man or god, but Zeus alone’; but for the violent metaphor of a god drinking from the cup there is substituted the literal libation which typified the god's draught.

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

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