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[186] This is the only case in the Iliad where we find music among men; the concert in 1.603 is heavenly. The exigencies of war may perhaps account for the fact that the Iliad knows nothing of the “ἀοιδοί”, who are so prominent in Cf. Od. on 2.595.

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

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