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[170] For Eurybates see 1.320, 2.184. Ar. remarked that of the two namesakes the herald of Odysseus must, for obvious diplomatic reasons, be the one meant here — unless, as is more likely, the poet looked on Eurybates as a merely typical name for a herald. Of Odios we hear no more.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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