μαχέοιντο Il., 1, 344

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Constantinus Philo
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μαχέοιντο Il., 1, 344

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Any suggestions about this form? Monro seems to say that it is a scribal error and that a F ind should be read instead.
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Chantraine calls the syntax of this line douteuse, noting that the correct Homeric form would be μαχεοίατο. West reads μαχεοίατ' (a conjecture of Bentley) but reports that several papyri and a 9th c. codex containing D scholia (which he writes contains a number of good readings as against the consensus of the medieval mss.) read fut. μαχέονται. "Scribal error" is too crude a term in the context of the complicated transmission of the Homeric poems.
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