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[482] Schol. T says “τὸν δὲ καθαίροντα καὶ ἁγνίτην ἔλεγον”, Schol. B “ὡς εἴ τις . . ἀπέρχεται πρὸς τὸν ἁγνίσοντα”, from which K. O. Müller has conjectured that there was a variant “ἀνδρὸς ἐς ἁγνίτεω” here. This is possible, but such a reading can only have been a late one; there is no trace whatever in H. of expiation for blood except by payment or exile, ritual purification being unknown. This in fact Schol. T seems to admit by the remark “ἴσως δὲ ἀναχρονισμός ἐστιν ὡς τὸἴαχε σάλπιγξ”,” and we are safe in concluding only that the scholia took purification for granted as the sole motive for the manslayer's action.

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