Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 9 (Ι）, line 257

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[257] ληγέμεναι, not strictly abstain, but cease from a quarrel when you have been drawn into it (as you assuredly will be at times). Heyne, followed by Bekker and others, rejects 257-8 as an interpolation ex post facto; for Peleus could not foresee the circumstances of the present quarrel. But as 256 gives the advice to ‘beware of entrance to a quarrel,’ so this couplet adds (unlike Polonius) ‘being in it — do not remain inexorable.’

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

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