[488] So Andromache Il. 22. 510 foll. laments that Hector cannot be laid in the robes which are in store in the palace, τετυγμένα χερσὶ γυναικῶν. Here the garment was doubtless prepared for Euryalus' wearing when alive, and his mother laments that he cannot have the use of it even when dead. She was weaving when the news reached her, v. 476. ‘Festina,’ to finish it before her death.
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