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[8] προὔχοντο. Eustath. renders “πρὸ ἑαυτῶν εἶχον ὥστε σφάξαι”. Cp. Il.17. 355“πρὸ δὲ δούρατ᾽ ἔχοντο”, ‘held before them.’ The picture that Telemachus sees is that of the nine companies just ready to begin sacrificing. The victims stand between the sea and the sacrificers, who are naturally facing seawards, as if making supplication to Poseidon.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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