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[153] οὐρούς, ‘the launching-ways,’ trenches in the sand by which the ships were dragged down to the sea; ἕρματα, the props, probably large stones, placed under the ships' sides to keep them upright, see 1.486. The former word, which does not recur in Greek in this sense, may possibly be the same as “οὖρος” = “ὅρος”, the boundary being originally the trench marking the divisions of the common field. No weight can be laid on difference of accent.

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

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