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[312] This line recurs Od. 14.156 in a sadly undignified context. ‘The gates of death’ mean the dreaded entrance into the world of shadows (see Od. 11.491). The passage is clearly alluded to in Soph. Phil. 89.

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

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    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.491
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