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[490] τόξα, from the mention of arrows in 492, seems to mean ‘weapons of archery,’ including the quiver; though this is not a Homeric use, cf. 1.45. “ αὐτοῖσιν ” in the emphatic place cannot mean less than ‘those very weapons,’ i.e. her own bow and arrows.

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

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