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[13] Cf. 24.16 and note on 22.396 for the practice of driving round the dead man's tomb. In 19.211 the body of Patroklos was in the hut, “ἀνὰ πρόθυρον τετραμμένος”. Here it is evidently conceived as being out in the open, on the shore, where the Myrmidons and Achilles sleep round it.

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

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