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[94] 94-96 are condemned by Bayfield on good grounds. Two of them are borrowed, 94 from 1.297, 96 from 17.204. The mention of Patroklcs as ‘amiable’ is not in place in an enemy's mouth; 94 is quite unsuitable for a petition; and it is useless for Lykaon to appeal for mercy on the ground that he is not ‘of the same womb’ with Hector, when he has just reminded Achilles of the slaying of his own brother Polydoros. Achilles makes no allusion to the argument in his reply.

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

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