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[723] χάλκεα: so MSS.; Bentley conj. “χάλκεἰ”, but the hiatus is perhaps legitimate after the first foot. The usual number of spokes in the early Greek monuments, as well as in the Assyrian and Egyptian, is six or four; but eight are found in the archaic sarcophagus from Klazomenai published in J. H. S. vol. iv. In any case, as Eust. remarks, the largest number possible would be attributed to the divine chariot, for it has all the parts made of metal which in the human car were of wood, even straps of gold and silver instead of leather. For ὀκτάκνημα Cobet reads “ὀκτώκνημα”, but “ὀκτα-” is the commoner form from Hesiod (Hesiod Opp. 425) onwards.

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

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