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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
A fundamental assumption throughout this article is that the text of Homer is no different from that of other classical authors, since it has been preserved by the same kind of manuscript tradition. The difference is that while all our texts go back to the editions of the Hellenistic scholars, the gap between these and the author is relatively short for fourth and fifth century writers, but very much longer for Homer, if we assign to him a very approximate date of the late eighth, or even early seventh, century.
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5 For a specimen of sixth century Euboean see the Eretrian law in Schwyzer DGE 800.
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7 See note 4.
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13 [Plato] Hipparchus 228b.
14 Accusative Ο 8; genitive Υ 67; both perhaps modelled on the more frequent dative O 57, 158, etc.
15 p. 191, n. 6.
16 ᾿Ιλῑου Ο 66, etc.; ΑΙο̄̀λου κ 36, 60. For the traditional view see Chantraine (n. 10) 45.
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