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The Iliad

Note 779 — BOOK THE TWENTY-FOURTH.

Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4

Footnote 779: (return) “The sense is: I have not sanctioned the proposal that the body of Hector should be removed furtively, in order that an opportunity might be offered to Achilles of receiving a ransom for it, which would redound to his glory.”—Kennedy.

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