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[255] θέλγε, befooled, bewitched. The verb, which is much commoner in the Od. than Il., means to charm in either a good sense (e.g. Od. 17.514) or a bad, as here, 13.435, etc.; cf. 24.343. The scholia note with some justice that this action of Zeus is rather inconsistent, as the omen, for which he is presumably responsible, has just come to discourage the Trojans.

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

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