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[462] 462-3. Cf. Od. 3.459, where the lines are certainly more appropriate, as the “νέοι” there are Nestor's sons, who help him with the sacrifice. Here the idea of young men is not in place. The πεμπώβολα must have been five-pronged forks stuck into the meat to hold it over the fire. Eustathios says that the use of five prongs for the purpose was peculiar to Kyme in Aiolis, the other Greeks using only three. (Engelmann has shewn, Jahrb. d. d. arch. Inst. vi. 173, that the forks figured in Helbig, H. E. ^{2} 354-5, are kitchen utensils used for fishing boiled meat from the caldron, cf. 1 Sam. ii. 13, and could not have been used for Homeric sacrifices, which are always roast.)

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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