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[366] κατὰ σφέας: cf. “μαχόμην κατ᾽ ἔμ᾽ αὐτὸν ἐγώ” 1.271, ‘they will fight each tribe on their own account,’ and so every man will have a motive for ambition in the glory which will accrue to his tribe or family from success. Cf. “Quodque praecipuum fortitudinis incitamentum est, non casus neque fortuita conglobatio turmam aut cuneum facit, sed familiae et propinquitates,” Tac. Germ. 7 ; “Batavi Transrhenanique, quo discreta virtus manifestius spectaretur, sibi quaeque gens consistunt,” Hist. iv. 23.

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

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