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[164] γλήνη, plaything, doll, puppet. The word recurs in 14.494, Od. 9.390, in the sense of eye-ball or pupil (so also Soph. O. T. 1277); and the cognate “γλήνεα” is found in 24.192, meaning trinkets (compare “τρίγληνος” 14.183, Od. 18.298, with three drops, of earrings; Helbig, H. E. ^{2} 271). The word seems to come from the root “γαλ”, and to mean ‘something bright.’ In the present passage it has been taken to mean girl by a process the inverse of that by which “κόρη” comes to mean the pupil of the eye. But it implies no more than ‘you pretty toy.’ οὐκ of course goes with ἐπιβήσεαι, not with “εἴξαντος”.

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

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