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Book Eleven<br />

follows Hektor's counter-attack. If the words are well-chosen they are an<br />

eloquent comment on Agamemnon's morale and egotism: he sees his great<br />

offensive as an operation of defence and despairs at its first check.<br />

278 cpuAomv dpyaX£T|v is a unique expression, though hardly more than<br />

a variant of cpuXoms ocivr), etc. (n x ). Pap. 432 reads cpuAoTnSos Kporrepfis,<br />

which is slightly more familiar (1 x in each epic). If the genitive is not a<br />

mere slip something must have replaced irovTOTropoiai in 277 to give it<br />

construction (KCCI uvf|(7O«j0£ Merkelbach, Aoiyia £pya or Auypov oAeOpov<br />

West).<br />

280-1 These verses expand the formular verse u&ciTi^ev 8* nrnrous (or<br />

eAdocv) • TCO 8 s OUK OCEKOVTE TT£T£cx6r|V (1 o x ). For chariot as ambulance cf.<br />

399 (Diomedes), 488 (Odysseus), 517 (Makhaon); Eurupulos had to walk<br />

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