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[45] σκολόπεσσιν, used only here in Odyssey, occurs in the Iliad several times, as describing the palisade erected by the Greeks to defend their trench, “ὕπερθεν δὲ σκολόπεσσιν

ὀξέσιν ἠρήρει τοὺς ἔστασαν υἷες Ἀχαιῶν
πυκνοὺς καὶ μεγάλους, δηίων ἀνδρῶν ἀλεωρήν Il.12. 55.Here it represents the palisade, or chevaux de frise, along the coping of the τείχεα μακρά. Cp. Od.14. 10δείματο [αὐλήν] ῥυτοῖσιν λάεσσι καὶ ἐθρίγκωσεν ἀχέρδῳ”.

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