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[301] The dual Αἴαντε is preferable to the singular, as through the whole of the battle at the ships the two namesakes act together. For the use of ἀμφί see on 3.146. The omission of Menelaos from the list of heroes is strange.

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

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