[243] Hermes has his wand when he conducts the souls of the suitors to the shades at the beginning of Od. 24. ‘Tartara tristia’ Med., Pal., &c.: ‘tristia Tartara’ was the order before Burm. For ‘mittit’ Pal. originally had ‘ducit.’
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