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[407] προπάροιθε θυράων. The position commonly assigned to these seats of polished stone is outside the “αὐλή”, and so on the public way. But Gerlach (Philol. 30. p. 503 foll.) seems right in placing them in the “πρόδομος”, at either side of the door. He remarks that in the ruins of the temple of Themis in Rhamnus similar seats are found. Sitting on one of such “λίθοι”, we may suppose Menelaus talks to Telemachus, Od.4. 311; and the suitors when playing with the “πεσσοί” are described as sitting “προπάροιθε θυράων” Od.1. 106 foll.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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