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[548] τέκε — ἄρουρα is of course parenthetical — an allusion to Athenian autochthony — and “Ἀθήνη” is the subject of “εἷσε”. The temples of Athene Polias and Erechtheus were always under one roof. So Od. 7.81, where Athene repairs to Athens, she “δῦνεν Ἐρεχθῆος πυκινὸν δόμον”. This of course means that two different worships, one presumably pre-Hellenic, had been fused; only the character of Athene and the pride of autochthony alike precluded the usual device by which the older hero or god was made the son of the Olympian. ζείδωρος, the graingiver, from “ζειά”, not, of course, life-giving. πίονι, sc. with offerings.

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

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