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[328] νευρήν, according to the use of the word in Homer, must mean bowstring (cf. 15.469), but the breaking of this seems such a subordinate matter that we might rather have expected “νεῦρον”, the sinew of the arm. However, the breaking of the string puts an end to Teukros's prowess in O; so here it helps to bring the episode to a fitting close.

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

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