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[712] ἀμείβοντες: “δοκοὶ μεγάλαι, ἀλλήλαις προσπίπτουσαι ὥστε βαστάζειν τὴν” “ὀροφήν, οι<*>τινες καὶ συστάται καλοῦνται”, Schol. The A. two wrestlers leaning against one another with their shoulders, but standing wide apart with their feet, are compared to the sloping rafters of a gabled roof. like the letter “Λ” as Schol. “Τ” says. There is good reason to suppose that such pitched roofs were familiar in the Mykenaean age as the national type for private dwellings, while the flat roof, which afterwards became universal in Greece except for temples, was confined to the palaces of the wealthy (TsountasManatt, pp. 70-1; Perrot-Chipiez Art in Prim. Greece, Engl. Trans., ii. 120-22). For the name compare “ἐπημοιβοί”, the cross-beams of a gate, 12.456. “ ὡς ὅτ᾽ ”, which is approved by Nikanor, is clearly right; “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽” would give a false comparison with 714.

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

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