Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 4 (Δ）, line 485

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[485] The use of so soft and weak a wood as poplar for the felloe of a wheel is certainly curious. The wood is suited to the purpose, however, by its flexibility and elasticity. Ameis suggests that the bronze tire (“ἐπίσσωτρον”) would supply the requisite hardness. Probably the Homeric carpenter had not learned to bend tough wood by the aid of steam, and was therefore driven to the use of the weaker kinds for purposes such as the present.

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

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