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[129] ξυνελαυνέμεν, the act. is only here used intrans.; cf. “σύμβαλον” 16.565. ὄττι τάχιστα: if we adopt the variant “ὄφρα τάχιστα”, the colon should be placed before the word “ὄφρα”, as in 13.326, etc. Reading “ὅττι” the punctuation must be as in the text, as 9.659, 15.146, 23.403, 414, cf. 71; εἴδομεν being added asyndetically as in 8.532. (The use of “ὅττι” with superl. occurs in H. only in this phrase.) Paley compares Aisch. Cho. 890 “εἰδῶμεν ἢ νικῶμεν ἢ νικώμεθα”.

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

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