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Book Nine<br />

the reversal of that hasty decision at 650-3 (see n.). — f|7T£iAr|CTE: note<br />

Odysseus' assessment of Akhilleus' words. Akhilleus has already uttered one<br />

empty threat (vuv 6' eTui OOrnvS', 1.169), and no one takes this one seriously<br />

or remarks that Akhilleus is still there the following day. The essence of<br />

Akhilleus' position is that he will not help in the present crisis and that is<br />

what Odysseus reports (so bT), as if Akhilleus' words to Phoinix and Aias<br />

were irrelevant; moreover Akhilleus put an unacceptably humiliating condition<br />

on his co-operation: total Achaean catastrophe. See R. Scodel, CPh<br />

84 (1989) 91-9. Reinhardt (IuD 240) suggested that ocu' f\di ycnvo\ykvr\

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