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[93] δόλον τόνδ᾽ ἄλλον, ‘this stratagem besides.’ To give “ἄλλον” its ordinary sense here, we must consider Penelope's practice of buoying her suitors up with false hopes represents one piece of treachery, and the device of the loom, the second. Penelope herself describes the loom as her first scheme, “φᾶρος μέν μοι πρῶτον ἐπέπνευσεν μέγα δαίμων Od.19. 138

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