Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 3 (Γ）, line 238

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[238] αὐτοκασιγνήτω according to the grammarians means ‘whole brothers’; we have not evidence enough of the early forms of the Dioskuri myth to say if Homer regarded them both as children of Zeus; in “λ” they are distinctly made sons of Tyndareos, and it is probable that Helen herself may have been to H. really his daughter, and only in a more distant degree descended from Zeus. But see on 140. μία = “ἡ αὐτή” as 19.293; μοι goes with it, ‘the same as me.’

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

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