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[495] δοῦρα: Bekker writes “δοῦρε”, no doubt rightly; cf. 3.18, 6.104, 11.43, etc. We need not also write “ὀξέε” with van L. The dual here expresses more than ‘two spears’; it means the pair of spears which were regularly carried by the Homeric warrior, for in its original use it belongs properly only to things which go in pairs, such as eyes, hands, etc. It is curious that a scholion of Porphyrios on 3.379 quotes as evidence of the two spears 6.104, where as here MSS. all have “δοῦρα”.

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

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