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Book Ten<br />

established in the paradosis, being attested in Pap. 98 and Pap. 211; it was<br />

also the subject of a TroAu6puAr|TOV £f|Tn|ja of depressing pedantry, how<br />

one-third of the night could be left when more than two-thirds had passed:<br />

Porphyry (149 Schrader) devoted more than six pages to this silly question.<br />

For the threefold division of the night hours cf. the curious Odyssean<br />

formula Tpixoc VUKTOS (Od. 12.312, 14.483).<br />

2j4~g8 The two heroes arm themselves for their dangerous mission, donning helmets<br />

of unusual design. With prayers to Athene and encouraged by an omen they set off<br />

through the night<br />

For the normal arming scene see 3.330-8 and n. The poet uses none of the<br />

usual formulas and employs a new one twice, &u

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