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[411] ὅρκια, the oath of truce. It is not clear why Agamemnon lifts his sceptre to all the gods, when only Zeus, the presiding deity of oaths, is named; see 10.328, where the sceptre is again used as the instrument of the oath as in 1.234. This is a place where some allusion to the breach of the previous truce in “Δ” would seem to be imperative, if the author of this passage knew of it.

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