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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 07.095

Greg Nagy

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

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While volunteering to accept the challenge of Hector, Menelaos blames the other Achaean chieftains for hesitating. He engages them in ‘quarrel’, neikos, and ‘he says words of insult’, oneidizein.