305ἀνστήτην, λῦσαν δ᾽ ἀγορὴν παρὰ νηυσὶν Ἀχαιῶν:
Both verbs, the du and the pl, refer to Achilles and Agamemnon, don't they? I think that might be common in Homer.
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While It's true that Homer uses the dual and the plural somewhat interchangeably for double subjects (and maybe even for triple subjects in Book 9), I wonder whether the second verb here refers to Achilles and Agamemnon alone, or to the whole of the Achaeans acting in the assembly. Agamemnon alone might have had the authority to adjourn the assembly, but I don't see why that authority would have been shared with Achilles, so I think the better view is just that the Achaeans as a whole broke up the assembly. They just got up and scattered.
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