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Note 265 — Chapter IX · - THE GRECIAN PHRATRY, TRIBE AND NATION.

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Οὐ μέν πως πάντες βασιλεύσομεν ἐνθάδ' Ἀχαιοί. οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη· εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω, εἷς βασιλεύς, ᾧ ἔδωκε Κρόνου παῖς ἀγκυλομήτεω. [σκῆπτρόν τ' ἠδὲ θέμιστας, ἵνα σφίσι βασιλεύῃ.] —Iliad, ii, 203.

The words in brackets are not found in several MS., for example, in the commentary of Eustasius.

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