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[112] Zen. read this line “ἀνέρες ἔστε θοοὶ καὶ ἀμύνετον ἄστεϊ λώβην”. It certainly seems more probable that this should have been altered into the regular formula than vice versa. Of course for “ἀμύνετον” we must read “ἀμύνετε”. This will have been changed, in order to avoid the apparent hiatus, by those who believed that the dual could be used for the plural. For “θοός” used in this way cf. 16.422.

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

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