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[147] Compare 13.204ἦκε δέ μιν σφαιρηδὸν ἑλιξάμενος,14.413στρόμβον δ᾽ ὣς ἔσσευε. ὅλμος” is explained by Schol. A as “κοῖλος λίθος εἰς ὃν κόπτουσιν ὄσπρια” (pulse) “καὶ ἄλλα τινά”, i.e. a mortar. The word is used of a wooden mortar in Hes. Opp. 423(cf. Herod.i. 200), and of a kneading trough Ar. Vesp. 238.This rather suggests that the meaning here is a round block not of stone but of wood, the trunk of a tree, applied, as with us, to the headless and armless body. Cf. Virg. Aen. x. 555truncumque tepentem provolvens.” “ϝ᾽ ἔσσευεν” Brandreth and van L.

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