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Book Ten<br />

170 TraT8es: only two of Nestor's sons are mentioned in the Iliad,<br />

Thrasumedes and Antilokhos. Thrasumedes is with the watch and<br />

Antilokhos is (in the Iliad proper) temporarily out of mind, see 9.81—4n.<br />

173-4 em £upou: the first occurrence of what became a very common<br />

metaphor for crisis. As with scales (8.69 = 22.209, 12.433) ^ ne metaphor<br />

is from the uncertainty of balance. The construction of lorccTai, which<br />

should be impersonal, oAeOpos, and the infinitive picovca is curious, but the<br />

sense is perfectly clear.<br />

177-8 These verses (from eeaaaxo) = 23-4. 8epua Aeovros: heroic attire,<br />

cf.<br />

180-253 Nestor calls for a volunteer to spy out Trojan intentions. Diomedes at once<br />

responds and calls for a companion. The other chiefs volunteer and, in order to spare<br />

Menelaos, Agamemnon tells Diomedes to make his own choice. He names Odysseus<br />

180—2 The watch are on their toes. Their wakefulness is noted because<br />

97-9 above had raised the possibility that they had all collapsed from<br />

exhaustion. — Verse 180 = 3*209 (with Tpcbeaaiv for (puA&Ke

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