Note 308 — Chapter XXI · GRECIAN EPIC.—HOMERIC POEMS. (continued 2)
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Unless, indeed, we are to imagine the combat between Tlepolemus and Sarpêdon, and that between Glaukus and Diomêdês, to be separate songs; and they are among the very few passages in the Iliad which are completely separable, implying no special antecedents.