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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Carla Castelli and published on 04/04/2019.

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The scholia to the Iliad (Sch. ex. Il. 23, 726a) cite an author named Sopater as the source of the name of a military tactic adopted by Odysseus during battle. Sopater was identified with some doubt as a rhetor vel grammaticus by Erbse (1969–1988, 6, Index I, s.v.), who in the textua…