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[856] “ῥεθέων: ὅτι πάντα τὰ μέλη ῥέθη Ὅμηρος προσαγορεύει, οἱ δὲ Αἰολεῖς μόνον τὸ πρόσωπον”, The An.word is of doubtful origin, and we have no information about it but this. It recurs 22.68, 362, and in the sing. = face, Soph. Ant. 529, Eur. H. F. 1204.There is no reason but tradition to shew that it means limbs here; mouth would suit equally well and explain how it came to mean face; cf. the double meaning of os. So Ap. Rhod. uses “ῥεθέων” = face, ii. 68.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Euripides, Heracles, 1204
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.68
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 529
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.68
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