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[163] “ἐντυπάς: ὅτι ἐν ἴσωι τῶι ἐντυπάδεια, ὥστε διὰ τοῦ ἱματίου τοῦ σώματος τὸν τύπον φαίνεσθαι”, An.; and so Ap. Rhod. understood the word (i. 264, ii. 861). Qu. Smyrn. (v. 530) possibly took it to mean imprinting his outline in the dust (“ἐντυπὰς ἐν κονίηισιν”), as Düntzer and Död. explain. The word is in either case strange both in sense and formation. The primitive sense of “τύπος” is the impression of a seal. Hence “ἐντυπόω” = to cut in intaglio; but how this has any bearing on the sense here it is not easy to see. (It is worth remarking that seals are never mentioned in H., though as we know intaglio cutting was familiar in Greece from the earliest times to the latest, being found abundantly on all Mykenaean sites. This is a significant warning of the little force of negative evidence in H.)

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

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