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[308] δα - φοινός: “δα-” = “ζα-”, for “δια-” intensive. “φοινός”, 16.159, is apparently for “φόνιος”, gory, i.e. blood-red. Cf. “φοίνιον” Od. 18.97, “φοινήεις” 12.202, “φοῖνιξ”. Rendel Harris (Homeric Centones p. 4) has called attention to the curious echo of this line in Rev. xii. 1, 3 “καὶ σημεῖον μέγα ὤφθη ἐν τῶι οὐρανῶι .. καὶ ἰδοὺ δράκων μέγας πυρρός, κτλ.”

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

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