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[699] For the only other mention of Kassandra in the Iliad see 13.366 ff. (she is named also in Od. 11.422). The scholia remark that there is nothing here to indicate that she possesses the gift of prophecy which played so important a part in the later Epic cycle. At the same time there is nothing in the words inconsistent with such an idea; and the fact that the poet — for what reason we cannot explain — should have thought fit to make choice of Kassandra to discern the body first may have suggested it to later imitators.

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

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