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[194] The only explanation of this passage seems to be that Hector is still running along the wagon-track (146), but that Achilles is taking the shorter but rougher course immediately under the walls. Thus though he cannot overtake Hector, he can cut him off whenever he attempts to reach the gate. For the Dardanian gate see on 5.789. The fact that the Skaian gate is not named is in favour of Ar.'s identification of the two. This part of the description evidently applies to the whole of the first three circuits.

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

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