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[63] 63, 64. These lines are bracketed, because probably not a part of the original poem. They seem like the interpolation of a later gnomic poet. In the present context, πολέμου ἐπιδημίοο (‘civil war’) must refer to the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, and ἐκεῖνος, if applied to this concrete case, indicates Agamemnon.

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