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Book Nine<br />

6.5-36), and killed a companion of Aineias at 5.533-40, and fled with the<br />

rest at 8.78; not an impressive performance, although he was one of the<br />

three on whom it was hoped the lot would fall to fight Hektor in single<br />

combat (7.180). Diomedes reminds Agamemnon of his duty to lead, a<br />

challenge that the latter cannot decline. At the same time his words foreshadow<br />

Agamemnon's aristeia in book 11— and create an expectation in the<br />

singer's audience.<br />

710-3 The natural break in the narrative is marked by a few conventional<br />

verses, noting general assent, libation, departure, and retirement, cf.<br />

Od. 7.226-9. Verse 710 = 7.344, an adaptation (or the archetype) of...<br />

TT&VTES luiaxov uies 'Axocicov (50), or ... TT&vTes l7rsu

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