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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 11.627

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:44 p.m.

Read in Context

The Aeolian captive woman Hekamede excels in intelligence, as does Nestor, and such excellence is expressed here by way of the noun boulē in the specific sense of ‘plan, planning’, that is, having an aptitude for cleverness in planning.