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[226] θυμὸν ἀέξω, raise your courage. A similar picture of the economical difficulties of the war is to be found in 18.290 ff. δώροισι, by the exaction of gifts and food for the allies; λαούς, my own folk. This idea seems hardly consistent with the primitive poem, to which the vast number of the allies as compared with the native Trojans is strange. The only allies known to the “Μῆνις” and the other older portions of the Iliad are the immediately neighbouring tribes of the Troad itself, Dardans, Leleges, and Kilikes.

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

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