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[171] κλίνων evidently implies the pointed amphora, meant to be stuck into the ground or leant against a wall. This practice survived in the Attic funeral “λήκυθοι”, small pointed jars ranged round the bier of the dead.

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

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