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[93] ἕλωρα in plur. only here (but “ἑλώρια” A 4). The singular is always used in a concrete sense, an object of prey, generally to wild beasts or dogs, but in Od. 13.208 to robbers. Here it must be abstract, pay (the penalty) for his preying upon P., “ὑπὲρ ὧν εἵλκυσεν ἵν᾽ ἀνθελκυσθῆι”, Schol. B. Μενοιτιάδἀ is our way of writing what the MSS. give as “Μενοιτιάδαο, ἐκ πλήρους”. Cf. 21.86.

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

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