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[29] This line may be taken as showing that the “δουροδόκη” or receptacle for spears was outside the “μέγαρον”. So in 16. 40 Telemachus gives his spear to Eumaeus and then crosses the threshold: cp. 1. 128. The column used for this purpose was doubtless one of those which formed the “πρόθυρον”.

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