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102.<br />

scattered over the thousands<br />

which follow: equally inexplicable<br />

were the pointed allusions<br />

occurring in this episode<br />

to events narrated in the previous<br />

and subsequent text, several<br />

<strong>of</strong> which could hardly be<br />

<strong>of</strong> traditional notoriety, but<br />

through the medium <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Iliad</strong>."—Mure,<br />

"Language and<br />

Literature <strong>of</strong> Greece," vol. i. p.<br />

263.<br />

—Twice Sixty: "Thucydides<br />

observes that the Boeotian vessels,<br />

which carried one hundred<br />

and twenty men each,<br />

were probably meant to be the<br />

largest in the fleet, and those <strong>of</strong><br />

Philoctetes, carrying fifty each,<br />

the smallest. <strong>The</strong> average<br />

would be eighty-five, and<br />

Thucydides supposes the

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