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[255] τορνώσαντο, made round (Od. 5.249), i.e. drew the circle of the mound. θεμείλια, a circle of upright stones forming a facing to the foot of the mound (hence “προβάλοντο”). We have an excellent specimen of this construction in the circle of upright stones surrounding the site of the graves at Mykene, and evidently intended as the revetment of a tumulus which has since disappeared (Tsountas-Manatt, pp. 108 ff.). Compare also Herodotos' description of the tomb of Alyattes, i. 93 “ἡ κρηπὶς μέν ἐστι λίθων μεγάλων, τὸ δὲ ἄλλο σῆμα χῶμα γῆς”.

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

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