Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 17 (Ρ）, line 263

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[263] The scholia say that Solon burnt his poems in despair of their ever bearing comparison with this fine simile. They tell the story equally of Plato, and with more reason, as Solon's poems survived. The ancients held that the simile referred to the Nile; but for this there is no authority. διιπετ́ης (see on 16.174) is used of any river.

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

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