[322] On the variants see J. H. S. xv. p. 311 f. It may be doubted whether “τέρθρον” and “κήρηνα” are due to independent reciters, or whether “κάρηνα” is a gloss on the comparatively rare “τέρθρον”. The word (which is generally a nautical term) is not elsewhere used as a mountain-top, but it is equivalent to “τέρμα” in Eur. fr. 372 (cf. Erotian Gl. Hipp. p. 366 “τέρθρον γὰρ ἔλεγον οἱ παλαιοὶ τὸ ἔσχατον καὶ ἐπὶ τέλει”); so of the tip of a nose, Emped. 346.
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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