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[348] ‘They even (“δή”) were eating meat bedabbled with blood,’ i.e. the meat seemed to be bleeding as they ate. So in a passage of the Icelandic Njalsaga (quoted in the notes to Butcher and Lang's translation of the Odyssey): ‘It seems as though the gable wall were thrown down, but the whole board and the meat on it is one gore of blood.’

349,=10. 248 (where see the note).

γόον ὠΐετο=‘was full of the thought of lamentation.’ It impelled them to lamentation, while outwardly they were laughing.

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