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[701] “ἡμιτελής ἤτοι ἄτεκνος ἢ ἀφηιρημένος τοῦ ἑτέρου τῶν δεσποτῶν ἢ ἀτελείωτος: ἔθος γὰρ ἦν τοῖς γήμασι θάλαμον οἰκοδομεῖσθαι” (Schol. A). The first explanation is best; he has only half completed his household, as, though married, he has left no son. Cf. Soph. O. T. 930 “παντελὴς δάμαρ” , ‘because the wife's estate is crowned and perfected by the birth of children’ (Jebb). The last is founded upon Odysseus' description of his building his own marriage-chamber, Od. 23.189 sqq. Cf. also 11.227 “γήμας δ᾽ ἐκ θαλάμοιο .. ἵκετο”. But “δόμος” cannot mean ‘wedding-chamber.’ The Δάρδανος ἀνήρ was variously said to have been Aineias, Euphorbos, or Hector; the latter was the name given by the Kypria, Demetrios of Skepsis (vide supra), and Soph. (fr. 443); but Ar. held that it was certainly wrong, as Hector was not a Dardanian strictly speaking.

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

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