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[527] κηρεσσιφορήτους, or as some read “κήρεσσι φορητούς” (cf. “ἀρηΐφατος, δαϊκτάμενος”, and note on 1.74; the accents in “Ρ” bear witness to the doubt', on the analogy of 2.302, 834, should mean ‘hurried away from life by fate,’ and might well be used proleptically, ‘doomed to death.’ The following line, which was not read by Zen., gives a much less effective sense, and has all the appearance of a gloss. But the mere development of the idea of the compound is not in itself un-Homeric; compare 9.124 “ἀθλοφόρους, οἲ ἀέθλια ποσσὶν ἄροντο”. Other more or less similar instances will be found in 5.63, 403, 11.475, 12.295, 13.482, 15.526, 16.143, 17.5, Od. 1.299, Od. 2.65, Od. 3.197.

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

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