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[212] βλοσυροῖσι, shaggy. Adam (in C. R. xiii. p. 10) argues that this sense suits all the Homeric passages (see 11.36, 15.608). In Scut. Her. 147, 175, 191, 250, the sense, as in the equivalent horridus, has sunk to the derivative notion of fierceness. So also in Aisch. Eum. 167, cf. Aisch. Supp. 833.In Plato ( Rep. 535B, Theaet. 149A) it is combined with “γενναῖος”, and the sense hairy seems to have passed into masculine, virile. In Ap. Rhod.ii. 740 it may mean bristling (with trees). προσώπαξι: so Od. 18.192 “προσώπατα”; cf. “ὀνείρατα” by “ὄνειρος”, H. G. § 107. 2. νέρθε, as opposed to the face. So we have “πόδες καὶ χεῖρες ὕπερθεν”.

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

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    • Homer, Iliad, 11.36
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.608
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    • Plato, Republic, 535b
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