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And this is what the lines of the text in question say; they're from the section of Book I just after Thetis approached Zeus to ask him for a favor for Achilles. I've marked in red the words we would know or could guess at if we had only the papyrus fragment to go on. As you can see, we wouldn't have much of an idea of what the lines said if we didn't have the manuscripts to help us out! |
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[Zeus] bowed his dark
brow in assent, [528] |