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[742] ἀμφιβαλόντες, lit. putting their strength on both sides of the beam, ‘into the work,’ as we say; as though their strength were something with which they actually clasped the thing they had to pull. Cf. 23.97 “ἀμφιβαλόντε ἀλλήλους” = embracing. Others transl. ‘clothing themselves with strength,’ but in this sense only “ἀμφιβάλλομαι”, as we should expect, is found in H., and the use of the act. is not sufficiently established by Eur. Andr. 110 “δουλοσύναν στυγερὰν ἀμφιβαλοῦσα κάραι”.

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

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