[355] “πρὶν κτλ”.: i.e. before the capture of Troy. The women and children of a captured city were treated as slaves, the men were killed; cf. “ἐκ πόλιος” (sc. of the Cicones) “δ̓ ἀλόχους καὶ κτήματα πολλὰ λαβόντες ι δασσάμεθα ι” 41 f., “πόρθεον, ἐκ δὲ γυναῖκας ἄγον καὶ νήπια τέκνα”, | “αὐτούς τε” (the men) κτεῖνον ρ 433 f.
τινά: in a collective sense, referring to each individual, as is also “Τρώων ἀλόχῳ”.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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