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Book Twelve<br />

at Vrulia in Rhodes c. 650 B.C. was sited so as to leave a space of 4-5 m<br />

before the wall; at Athens the fifth-century works near the Dipylon Gate<br />

allowed for a similar gap. One may suppose that the Iliad envisaged some<br />

such interval in the passages that speak of the ditch, (JTEIVOS: onreivos 660O<br />

KofAris 23.419 suggests that the 'narrow space' here is the confines of the<br />

ditch itself where it would indeed be difficult to fight effectively, mounted<br />

or on foot. Pouludamas would have a better point than this trite observation<br />

if we could take him to mean '

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