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[14] ἔχων is subordinate to the preceding participles, indicating a detail, and not co-ordinate with “λυσόμενος”, expressing the main object of his journey. It is therefore best to retain the vulg. instead of reading “στέμμα τ᾽” with Bentley (to agree with “στέμμα” in 28). The στέμμα is the “Apollinis infula” of Aen. ii. 430, a wreath of wool wrapped round the staff in token of suppliantship; cf. the “ἐριόστεπτος κλάδος” of Aisch. Supp. 23. It is probably the fillet worn, in ordinary circumstances, by the priest himself, or possibly, as has been suggested, the wreath from the image of the god.

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

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