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[371] This formula (also 4.288, 7.132, 16.97, and several times in Od.) gives a typical instance of the similarity between ‘wishing-clauses,’ followed by a paratactic clause expressing the result, and regular conditional sentences; 371-2 stand independently as a wish, as the appeal to the gods and the parallel passages shew, but by putting a comma at the end of 372 we could treat them as the protasis of a regular conditional sentence. H. G. § 318.

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

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