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[261] μοχλοῖσιν. If μοχλοί are ‘levers,’ there is an inaccuracy in κατείρυσεν, for the action of the lever is to lift and push, not to drag. But “κατερύειν” had become the technical word for getting the ship down into the water, and is so used here, although the addition of “μοχλοί” seems to alter the picture. But it is not impossible that “μοχλοί” may mean ‘rollers,’ a far more natural thing to use.

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

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