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[759] A favourite Odyssean line not recurring in the Iliad. Cf. M. and R. on Od. 3.280, ‘a sudden death without suffering is ascribed to the “painless shafts” of Artemis or Apollo, the goddess generally bringing death to women, the god to men. Such a death was easy, cf. Od. 18.202 “εἴθε μοι ὣς μαλακὸν θάνατον πόροι Ἄρτεμις ἁγνή”. In Od. 11.172 it is contrasted with “δολιχὴ νοῦσος”, and in Od. 15.407-11 with any form of “νοῦσος”.’ The generalizing subj. καταπέφνηι seems better than the vulg. “κατέπεφνεν”.

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

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