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[639] 639 = 9.235, where see note. Here it is most natural to take “Ἕκτορος μένος” as the subject of “πεσέεσθαι” as well as of “σχήσεσθαι”, that he will not be withheld, but will fall upon the ships. So N 742. But the line comes in better if, with Heyne, we reject 638 as a mistaken gloss, and so understand deem that we shall not hold out, but shall be hurled upon the ships.

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

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