Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 22 (Χ）, line 51

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[51] This giving of gifts to the daughter, if genuine, again shows that Laothoe can hardly have been in an inferior place, or one of which the father disapproved. But van L. is probably right in omitting the line as a late addition. The practice of giving gifts to a daughter at marriage dates only from the end of the Homeric period (see note on 9.146); and Priam can hardly be expected to proclaim that he looks to his wives' dowries for the ransom of his sons. Hoffmann rejects 46-55, Naber 46-53.

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

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