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[559] τειχιόεσσαν: the ‘Cyclopean’ walls of Tiryns are as great a marvel at the present day as in the time of Homer. But this is the only mention of the town in H.; the fame of it must have died out long before the end of the Mykenaean epoch.

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

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