Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 2 (Β）, line 769

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[769] This and the next line are an awkward interpolation, apparently intended to bring the Catalogue into harmony with lines such as 23.276. Schulze Q. E. p. 349 has shewn that the scansion “μήνι_ε” is purely Attic, the penultimate being always short in H. He suggests with great probability that 768 originally ended “πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς”, and was followed by 771. Euripides Iph. Aul. 206-26 clearly had the passage before him, but knows of no horses fleeter than those of Eumelos, with which Achilles competes in speed of foot.

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

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