Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 23 (Ψ）, line 542

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[542] δίκηι, perhaps in modern phrase ‘made a formal appeal,’ lit. ‘answered by the custom,’ i.e. in accordance with the ‘rule’ which is the intermediate step between the senses of ‘custom’ and ‘legal judgment.’ As Antilochos, though in his right as against Eumelos, is yet in the wrong towards Menelaos, the word can hardly mean ‘with justice,’ though this is the later sense of “δίκηι” (Trag., etc.).

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

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