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[390] ἀποτμ́ηγουσι, the torrent beds divide the hill-sides. The force of “ἀποτμήγειν” is not necessarily the same as our ‘cut off,’ i.e. it does not always imply the separation of the thing cut from something else, but may mean merely a division within it by a deep cleft as we say ‘cut up ’; see note on “λαιμὸν ἀποτμήξειε” (“ἀπαμήσειε”) 18.34.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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