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[548] This undoubtedly indicates some means of shading the bright colour of the gold, whether by alloy or by some sort of glaze. It is clear that the poet was thinking of some actual work which he had seen. ἀρηρομένηι: the variant “ἀρηρεμένηι”, though it has the authority of A and is as old as Ap. Rhod. ( “ἀρηρεμένας” i. 787 , iv. 677), is a mere blunder, as the stem “ἀρο”- could not lose its “ο”. Ap. Rhod. himself has “ἀρήροτο” iii. 1343.

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

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