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[106] ἥατο ‘were set down.’ This is the only place where “ἧμαι” is used of inanimate objects. The mills ‘sat,’ i.e. (probably) ‘lay flat.’ Presumably, like the hand-mills still used in Greece, they were too heavy to be placed on any support, such as a table.

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