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[511] ἄνδιχα πάντα δάσασθαι, to make a division of the movable property of the city, half being left to the citizens, half taken as ransom by the besiegers. This sense is clear from 22.117-20, where Hector thinks of proposing the same terms to Achilles. (So Schol. A “πρὸς τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἔθος ὅτι οἱ πολιορκούμενοι ἐξίστασαν τοὺς πολεμίους ἐπιμεριζόμενοι τὰ κτήματα”. The “ἀρχαῖον ἔθος” is presumably only a deduction from these two passages.)

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